dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)

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Jamie_Lambo wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:12 pm
tightenupvolume1 wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:43 pm "yank" are you a racist ?
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i call every American a Yank
the same way every Ozzy calls a Brit a Pom

considering were all from the same porridge i dont really see it as racist

we have many ways of labeling people based on where theyre from
northern monkey (north england)
southern fairy (south england)
jock (scottish)
sheep shagger (welsh)
carrot cruncher (east anglia/west country)
tractor boy (suffolk/west country)
scally (mersyside)
inbred (boston ourway, other cities might have their own)
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Hear hear. Us Yanks call Brits Poms or Limeys. Aussies are Ozzies or Aussies. NZs are Kiwis. Scots are Jocks. Southern Yanks are Crackers, In Alaska, every one is an Outsider.
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Americans hate anything that isn't pro-American.
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"Americans hate anything that isn't pro-American."

If that were true I would have left Cambodia years ago. What I don't particularly care for are sweeping supercilious generalizations like the one in the above quotes.
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I meant when talking about America. As ref to the OP's title and discussion on the word Yank.

Feel free to take the piss out of the English. We quite like it. :thumb:
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In my experience when the word "yank" is used by somebody it usually means they don,t like americans. just like the word "paki" "kraut" "dago" "frog" is used, its lazy stereotyping.
Pom and ozzie are not used in the derogatory way, its friendly banter, when does friendly banter become racist? how many people on here call cambodians "slant eyes or chinks"?
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tightenupvolume1 wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2017 2:29 pm In my experience when the word "yank" is used by somebody it usually means they don,t like americans. just like the word "paki" "kraut" "dago" "frog" is used, its lazy stereotyping.
Pom and ozzie are not used in the derogatory way, its friendly banter, when does friendly banter become racist? how many people on here call cambodians "slant eyes or chinks"?
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you seriously think when a ozzy calls a brit a pom its in any way different to calling an american a yank? :facepalm:

so when you go for a chinese take-away, you never say your off to get a "Chinky"??? really?!
In the United Kingdom, chinky (or chinky chonky,[1] in parts of northern England known as a chinkies, always in the plural) is a slang name for a Chinese takeaway restaurant or the meal that one buys from such a restaurant.
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When i hear somebody use the word yank it is usually followed by the words Brash, Big headed, Arrogant etc. I am not saying that everybody who uses that word is anti american, but the impications are there. Language is a funny thing. I was called Limey when i was in the states but it was never meant as a put down, likewise Pom.
A chinky is indeed a chinese takeaway but refering to somebody as a Chink rather than chinese strays into lazy racist stereotyping. A lot of irish people don,t like being called paddys, but i was never been pulled up for calling someone a sweaty sock when i was on the building sites, although when i lived in Scotland i didn,t use that term, too many anti english types around ready for a fight. call somebody a wet back in the states and it is clear what your attitude to mexicans is, same in england with paki.
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tightenupvolume1 wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2017 3:12 pm When i hear somebody use the word yank it is usually followed by the words Brash, Big headed, Arrogant etc. I am not saying that everybody who uses that word is anti american, but the impications are there. Language is a funny thing. I was called Limey when i was in the states but it was never meant as a put down, likewise Pom.
A chinky is indeed a chinese takeaway but refering to somebody as a Chink rather than chinese strays into lazy racist stereotyping. A lot of irish people don,t like being called paddys, but i was never been pulled up for calling someone a sweaty sock when i was on the building sites, although when i lived in Scotland i didn,t use that term, too many anti english types around ready for a fight. call somebody a wet back in the states and it is clear what your attitude to mexicans is, same in england with paki.
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the term Yank/Yankee has a long history with America though right from the colonisation of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee

and Pom is usually preceded by the word "fucking"... i was called a "fucking pom" a number of times during the spell i spent working there, often by random meth heads in the street lol :plus1:

sure terms like Chink, Paki, Abbo, Nigger etc have much more racial implications but its a different ball park to Yank, Pom, Paddy, Jock, Frog etc

English have been calling French Frogs for Centuries, even the French used to call the French Frogs when the surrounding area of Paris was a swampland
the old Medieval Coat of Arms for France used to be 3 Frogs but is but then later changed to the 3 fleurs de lis
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Given to King Clovis I from his Queen Clothilde, the symbol of the Fleur De Lys instead of three frogs originally on his Blason. Follow this coat of arms to all The Kings and Queens of France.
http://ancestralfamilytrees.blogspot.co ... rance.html
Arms were attributed to important pre-heraldic kings. Among the best known are those assigned to the King of the Franks, who was given three toads. The three fleurs-de-lis of France supposedly derive from these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attributed_arms
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" sure terms like Chink, Paki, Abbo, Nigger etc have much more racial implications but its a different ball park to Yank, Pom, Paddy, Jock, Frog etc"


My point exactly, but where does yank fit into this? in my experience the word is used most often by peple who don,t like americans. I agree with you some terms are friendly banter, pom,limey, kiwi etc, those terms have no racial undertones unlike yank.
What do our american friends say about this?

I was earwigging a crowd of brit package tourists in a bar in Goa a couple of years back, one of them said "the local pakis seem ok" he was probably a "thick northerner though" :stir:

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Is sepo worse than yank?

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