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..............@____@""