the term "chink" Options

[qoddesscheeks]

due to my earlier knowledge, the term "chink" was supposed to be a disrespectful way of calling chinese people. but somehow it became an usual word that some chinese kids call themselves today. i don't see a lot of koreans going around calling themselve "gook, or hispanic people calling themselve "spic". black people also get offended when u use the word "nigger" in front of them. i don't understand y would people use a racial slur to describe their own nationality.

[ikevinci]

i dont know either but i wouldn't call myself a chink

[*Programmer*]

im part viet i feel you on that....

show this post some love!!!

We shouldn't be doing it when ever i hear it it pisses me off that and "mutt"

-RiCo

[cRaZiiXbEauTiFul]

im chinese...and i dun call my self or any of my chinese friends chinks...

[Nicolatofu]

I never even knew that someone calling someone who was hispanic "spic" was offensive. I wouldn't use any of those comments to describe my self, nor anyone of other races, but maybe some people are mosre used to those slang terms...

[_sarcastic_]

i don't call myself a chink O.-

[*Kathleen*]

I know, it's okay for your own kind to describe themselves as that, but when someone who's not of your race calls you that, it's offensive. I hear black people call themselves niggers all the time - same with Chinese and chinks. But when someone else calls you it, it's offensive. I don't get it.

[Levy2k6]

i can say i do use those words and stuff but i dont say it offensively.. more like instead of saying "those guys" ill say something like "those (the n bomb goes here)" cuz it gives more description or something idk.. cant explain it..

but i found it funny today that i heard some hispanics call each other niggers today... i though it was funny.

[xj_liana_tx]

i don't call myself a chink, i guess it's just some thug-wannabes, to show how cool they are. I still find the word offensive.

[sammi rules you]

^ that's still bad..

i don't think i've ever used any of those words..and i don't understand why it's ok to call your own race a degrading name but if someone outside your race says it, it's wrong. someone please explain why it's ok? i mean i know it's offensive for someone outside your race especially to say it, but why do you call yourselves a name?..

[Skyline Drive]

I don't get it either. I would never call myself a spic. The other day when I went out to lunch with my friend.. we were driving and there were alot of mexican construction workers and they looked at us when we drove by and her exact words were " ewww spics " ( they didn't even do anything to her.. )

I was like "What the f*ck??? I'm hispanic you f*cking idiot." Gawd I've never been so offended.. Any racism just makes my fist tighten. That time.. I just couldn't take it that my whole mind just shut down..

RAWRrr!! die racists die

[lovescream]

Chink? Nobody here ever used that word.

Nigger? Psh. I say negro. :]
And I started the thingy of calling people chinese negros for funm, I'm chinese myself.

[xkiller_muffiinx]

Im chinese and I use the work "chink". It sounds cool and people take it as a joke. Never seriously.

Its like calling someone "bitch" but not meaning it. I dont know if any of you do it, but people can take offensive language and change it into a joke

[sweetdreamsx3]

I'm a chink, but I don't get offended unless you use it in a defensive way. I mean I am a chink, so what's so wrong about it? It's okay if you're also Chinese, but if you aint, then whatever. Same thing goes with blacks, hispanics, and whites. If you are one of those, it's okay. But are you one of them?

[F_L_I_P]

How come whenever i come back here theres always some racial problem or some person having a problem with what the other guys wearing? Cant we just all get along any way i get called chink too even though im not Chinese but it doesnt bother me at all. and the "N" word thing c'mon just look at the black peoples history.

-Phil-

[*stephinika*]

i have never said it myself but i have heard people around me use it...i try not to use racial slurs even just as a joke but they dont offend me too much unless you can tell the person saying it actually means it.

[xx silhouetted]

i don't understand it either. o0;; but i guess it's not offensive when someone of your own race says because they're one too. therefore the offensive-ness nulls out. lol. :]

[windsflamelead_]

lol........yea i know.....somehow chink has become like a compliment somehow....well not exactly a compliment......but ppl call themselves that nowadays and it doesnt mean anything bad..how strange

[xnastyninjagrlx]

Personally I really don't like the world "chink" because it is a racial slur just like any other racial slurs to different races. "Chink" to me, is just as bad as someone calling a black person "nigger." It is as though you are emphazing on their outer appearance and their color. Even though I am chinese, it is disgrace and I think it is disrespectful to use it even in a joking way. To me, I don't take these jokes very lightly. It puzzles me how so many people still use racial slurs as a joke. It seems like the more people use it in a joking matter, the more it becomes "acceptable" and "approapriate" and I just don't seem anything funny about that.

[liloandstitchx3]

hah. i don't consider myself AzN or chink. I consider myself asian and chinese.

i don't use racial slurs. well, i don't think i do ...

[*FreeStickers*]

I dont use the word chink, but I hear people use it a lot, and none of the Chinese people I know get offended. STill, I would never use it.

[mai_z]

It's a stupid double standard, like black people calling themselves nigger. I don't get offended by it, but I don't say it either

[Chii]

i don't call myself a chink, i guess it's just some thug-wannabes, to show how cool they are.  I still find the word offensive.

i would never call myself a chink, i agree that it's offensive

chink means "A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure." so it probably refers to the way some chinese people's eyes are...my eyes aren't chinky so either way i still wouldn't use that term

[qoddesscheeks]

i am chinese, &i get offended by this term no matter which way u use it. i know some people don't mean to be offensive when they'r joking around, but i still get offended. i don't use any racial slurs for any nationality, it's just very respectful.

&i don't think "chink" sounds cool.

[lilnatcat]

Um.........I seriously would'nt call myself a Chink..............
I hear ppls saying they're "Chinky" I'm like..............@____@""

[jennyjenny]

Yeah, I'm chinese and I hate when people not my race use the term "chink". It's so annoying, and it's so disrespectful. I would never call myself a "chink" nor anyone of my same race this term.

But a lot of people usually in my school ( most of them are white ) and they call the chinese people "chinks" and sterotype them and be freakin' racist. Heck, they found he Tsunami song to be FUNNY.

It's so rude.

[demolished]

i dont go around and name calling people becuase of their culture.

nope, i never called anything myself cuz .. " whats the point ?"

[xGlovex]

some people do really get affended.
but hey, thats what they get affended by,
and we cant change that. just be polite and dont say it around them.

i dont find the word chink or chinaman aggressive or insulting in any negative way, i take it as any other word that people use on other races
like black ppl are known as niggers
like white ppl are known as crackers
like mexican ppl are known as beaners
....well yeah

[heyyfrankie]

i don't know why people do that either. if i were black, i would probably not want to refer me or my friends as niggers because that seems weird. and i don't know why people get mad when others call them niggers when they were just saying it!

[jaeman]

I'm not chinese but some of my friends call me chink because of my eyes.
I don't take any offense to it.
My friends call my other chinese friends chinks and they don't really care, it's just a nickname?

[expoised]

due to my earlier knowledge, the term "chink" was supposed to be a disrespectful way of calling chinese people. but somehow it became an usual word that some chinese kids call themselves today. i don't see a lot of koreans going around calling themselve "gook, or hispanic people calling themselve "spic". black people also get offended when u use the word "nigger" in front of them. i don't understand y would people use a racial slur to describe their own nationality.

asians use "chink" with each other when they're just joking around. i know a lot of black people who use "nigger" with each other...

it doesn't really stir anything in me or make me angry when another asian (even if he/she isn't specifically chinese) call me a chink. but if another nationality used it.. i think i'd be pissed.

it's just one of those things. it's okay when used by the same race, but not when by another.

[sweetxsimplicity]

I never have used any racial slurs to describe anyone's nationality.
But people can use their own slurs if their their own nationality, like africans can call africans 'nigger' and so on..

[jennifish]

hmmm. never heard of any of them except "nigger"

[gigiopolis]

Er...black people call themselves niggers too, no?

Most Chinese people do get offended if other races other than Asian ones call them chinks. At least in my school, where over half of the students are Asian. When I was young and first heard the word, I had no idea it was the "nigger" for Chinese people. It's just so overused, that it doesn't seem to be a vulgarity any more.

[iheartsimba]

i agree. it's disrespecting your own race, it's disrespecting yourself. i dont understand why you would get so offended if anyone not like yourself referred to you as that, then you joke around and you that term for yourself. =/

[ryfitaDF]

i agree it's stupid, but then i find myself calling white people crackas all the time. and i call irish people micks. i don't know why, though. i ought to stop.

[whomps]

I hate it when people refer to us as "chinks" or when Chinese people refer to themselves as "chinks". I start yelling at them..

Irish people "Micks"???
Mexican's as "Spics"??

Wow I've never heard those before.

[summer_gal93]

I would never call anyone a chink.....

[Sumiaki]

People do get mad when someone not chinese/asian calls them a racial slur. But when chinese/asians call each other chinks, its all right because they "understand". Which I think is BS. It's the same way with the N word. Black people can say it, but no one else can. I seriously think it's really stupid.

When i said chinese/asians, I meant that most asians that aren't chinese call each other chinks because they have chinky eyes. Most chinese don't mind it as much because they're "asian".

[MisplacedYouth]

I am not asian or anything but I still think its rude.

Its kinda like n*gger, praire n*gger, cracker, ect.

[WhiteLotus*]

I would NEVER call a chinese homosapien a chink. I have MANY friends who are chinese, and I think they'd find it offensive.

I think I first heard the term from my dad..I was using chopsticks and he said," Why the hell are you eating your meat with the chinky pick up sticks?"


Gosh, I was so mad.

[misoshiru]

chink? i dont use it, i dont know anyone who uses it, and i've never heard anyone use it.

[xxruinedsoulxx]

why don't they just call them "chinese"? is it hard to say?

[sammehmyst]

I know, it's okay for your own kind to describe themselves as that, but when someone who's not of your race calls you that, it's offensive. I hear black people call themselves niggers all the time - same with Chinese and chinks. But when someone else calls you it, it's offensive. I don't get it.

exactly what i was thinking.

PS: 600th post. >:o

PSS: It isn't necessarily offensive to some communities. It depends where you live, really. My cousin hangs out with a ton of black people and he's white, and they call him "nigga" all the time. It just... depends.

[sunissed14127]

I've never used those words & never plan to either.

[*jooleeah*]

I know, it's okay for your own kind to describe themselves as that, but when someone who's not of your race calls you that, it's offensive. I hear black people call themselves niggers all the time - same with Chinese and chinks. But when someone else calls you it, it's offensive. I don't get it. 

exactly.

[*Weird addiction*]

i wouldnt call myself a nigger

[*mishyerr*]

Um correction. African-Americans do call themselves the N-word. I do not refer to myself as a chink, but I will not get offended and blow up because someone called me a word that some other person madeup a long time ago to insult a certain race. The connotation of words is subjective. Don't let it bite you in the ass! =D Plus, nobody really uses the word "chink" in my enviroment anyways..

[lilJdawg]

I'm chinese & sometimes i use it. it's okay for people with the same race to call each other chinks or yeah. black people call themselves niggers & yeah. you forgot cracker for white people.

[angel-roh]

really? Chink is a bad word for Chinese people? heh... I didn't know that!! But why???? my friend who is chinese... her username is chink_bebe_qrl ........ i didn't know that was a bad racism for its nationality!!

can anyone tell me why it's bad to call chink to a chinese person?


and.... "gook"? eh? no people calls us koreans..."gook" i never ever heard no people called us "gook"...maybe in your state, but not in seattle................................... they call us the "hangooks" and the "fobs" ^___^;;

[gelionie]

I don't call myself a chink... nor my Chinese friends... @@"
I think that's stupid.

[*lolita kitty*]

i never knew chick was improper 0.o

but im white and mexican, so i cant sya nothing

[alone in the wor...]

i think its pretty stupid&hypercritocal [sp?].

all i have to say is that if your gonna use a term that is offensive to your OWN race (such as .. chnk\ngr\crkr\spc no matter which way you mean to use it .. then use it, but dont get mad about it when someone else uses it against you-to you-around you, cos to be using racist slurs like that about your own race is like agreeing negatively about your own people. try an recognize. its not a freaking "trend" its offensive mann

.. & im not even chinese, black, hispanic, or white, im a flip and iono what were considered as [labeled offensively] but wouldnt you agree i mean cmon.

i never knew chick was improper 0.o

but im white and mexican, so i cant sya nothing

BTW, its "chink" not chick ..

[Ington]

That reminds me of a kid in my school. He is racist against everyone. I know he doesn't really believe in racism, but he just jokes about it way too much. especially towards Jewish people, which i find extremely offensive. He would draw Nazi symbols, make Nazi poses, mimick hitler. I wanted to squash him. But then i realized he is just a f**king idiot. So i fought fire with fire by threatening him and calling him a communist.

Now he is known as the school commy and hes scared of making fun of Jewish people.

[OhXiet_ItzDonnA]

what i think is becuz when they say that racial word when they're that nationality. they're not bein racist cuz they're one too. like when chinese people call their chinese friends chink, it probably dont matter cuz they're chinese too so there's no need for racism

[FiendAngelical]

its an azn thing.

[KELLYYY]

I'm Chinese, but I would NEVER call myself or anybody else "chink".

[nevernothere]

I choke ppl who call me a chink.... I'm not kidding either.

[miss barnes]

i'm black and yea we call each other NIGGA but, not nigger...well every once in a while...and negro too and nicca and nigra. When we say them, they arent in an offensive way at all..just in our nature to say them.

they arent a lot of asians here so yea..i only see them in the beauty supply store

my mama calls asians chinks sometimes but, i KNOW its not meant to be offensive. i think thats what they've always been called around her.

[xxpimpjuice1227x]

i have a friend that call her self chink.. or she want people to call her thier.. iLLEST CHiNK .. black people don't call there self nigger..they say nigga.. but i have some filipino friends that says nigga.. and ma friends that black are cool w/ it.. i kno im filipino but i wouldn't say nigga to a black person..its just like my cousin said she half blakc nd half fiilipino.. "just because your hella cool w/ blacl people dosn't mean you can say nigga" i agree w/ that that's why i don't call any of my friend nigga i think for filipino sayin nigga is rude..

[eli5e]

i dont mind if ppl within the nationality use it... just how black ppl use the n-word.

[freeflow]

my friend calls him self a chink ...iono why .. but he does ..

[LittleLulu]

well... you know how ppl always thought nerds were just weird n too smart n all geeky like.. well then
>>>>>>>>>>>>NERD PRIDE<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
thats right. =)

me n my friends smtms call each other "chinks" just as jokes. n be all like "CHINK PRIDE" haha... we dont really care.

[HongKongDong]

Dang where do you people live... not around here. Chinese people call other people chinks all the time. Same with gook's and beaners/spic's and such

"Watup my fellow Chink"
"Don't mess with us Gook's thats the number one rule"
"Ey beaner watup"

It's just like african-american people. They call eachother the N word all the time...

[*mzkandi*]

i'm black i say nigga to people in my race all the time. And as someone already mentioned its not nigger that we say. I feel if you aint black then why hell are you saying nigga for?? I dont call nobody spic, chink, etc becuz i feel by me saying this it is being disrespectful and my momma taught me better that . But still i hear other non blacks say nigga all the time and i just look at them funny. So i can see why some people would get offend with being called chink for especially if it is by a person of another race

[*instantmusic*]

hhahaha. my friends sn is SPICtacious.

yeh its wrong.

[Wishful_Dream]

i dunno.. i wouldn't like being called a chink.. cuz i'm not one. before this guy was like to me, "i thought you were chink." and im like, "no. i'm not chink. >=(" anyways, i'm viet... and if i was chinese, i wouldn't call myself a chink. =/