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[willyumiii]

British is a nationality, not a race.

Race is an ill-defined term.

Japanese is also a nationality.

Regardless, you found offence in an abbreviation. I don't see it

It is not an abbreviation it is a slur. "Brits" don't have memories of their parents and grandparents telling them how although most were US citizens their own government rounded them up and sent them to concentration camps with newspapers calling them yellow hordes and people using "dirty jap" to label them as subhuman.

The racist hysteria suffered by Japanese American is almost incomprehensible looking back. German Americans were not sent to camps even though there were huge pro-Nazi

rallies, The Bund, and various noted personalities like Lindbergh/Ford as sympathizers.

Ok, point taken.

Maybe ignorance and age on my part, I never connected it as being a slur.

Thank you both.

I have a friend who was born in a Japanese concentration camp in California.

His very patriotic Japanese-American lost everything, including their dignity.

It was horrible and all about racism.

[Toknarok]

You can hardly blame the Americans for their hatred of the Japanese during WW 2. After all they attacked Pearl Harbour without warning killing unsuspecting American sailors. However today perhaps 'Jap' is somewhat of a slur just as Pakistanis don't like being referred to as Pakis. Sticks and stones really.