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Originally Posted by noodle
What's your point? Whether they had concentration camps or not doesn't change the fact that the word "Jap" is used with no awkwardness. Even Japanese people use it. Heck, a pretty famous Japanese person opened a shop in Paris with "Jap" in the name
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Actually I think it does change the fact. (Not taking a tone with ya, just to clarify; I'm just stating my opinion
) Because in America at that time of the war, Americans called the Japanese "japs" as a racial insult. It remains to this day to be considered a racial slur in America to refer to anyone of Asian origin (because most Americans can't tell Asians apart) a "jap". In the UK, you don't have that same context and cultural tension as we do leftover from the internment era. At least, I don't think. I've been wrong before.