Question...

[Jamie!]

Stupid question but its got me thinking...

Why is calling someone from Pakistan a '****' considered racist? Surely calling someone from America an 'American' or someone from India an 'Indian' is the same?

By the way, not being racist or trying to cause arguments just a question :]

[-Wolverine]

The correct term is Pakistani.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I agree, Aussie = Austrialians

[:Hazel]

Good point although I'd call someone from Pakistan a Pakistani, because people may think your being racist if you call them a **** I don't know why that is mind you. :s

[HUGECOOL]

"The word Pakistan was created in 1933 by Rahmat Ali Chaudhry, a Cambridge law student, to refer to the independence movement that existed prior to the British decolonisation project of ex-London law students. It derives from the Urdu words for "pure country". However, the abbreviation **** acquired offensive connotations in the 1960s when used by British tabloids to refer to decolonisational subjects in a derogotary and racist manner. In modern British usage "****" is typically used in a derogatory way as a label for all South Asians, including Indians and Bangladeshis. In recent times there has been a trend by second- and third-generation British Pakistanis to reclaim the word, such as in the name of the clothing company PAK1 or the independent refugee television news agency ****.tv.

The racist connotations may be confined only to the UK. In Australia, the Pakistani cricket team are commonly referred to as the Pakis, just as the West Indians are known as the Windies."

-Wiki

[N!ck]

I hate it when people refer to these people as "Asians", since this represents a much larger group of people. Like you would say a person from China was Chinese, not Asian.

[brapbrap]

They call themselves pakis.

[cocaine]

They call themselves pakis.

Yet its racist?

[A4AClarissa]

They call themselves pakis.

yeah some girl shes like the ghetto **** queen, or thats what she calls herself lmfaoo

[alexxxxx]

I hate it when people refer to these people as "Asians", since this represents a much larger group of people. Like you would say a person from China was Chinese, not Asian.

I know, but, I can't tell the difference between somebody from Libya or Iraq or Pakistan or India.

Though I can tell if somebody is Chinese or not, that's why people call them Chinese/Japanese or Corkasian.