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.

[*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.

[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.