Hi Dark, No, Ishan is from India not South Africa. In any case my intent was not to say anything quite as insulting as Curry-Face which I have heard before and know to be fairly insulting. Even if I hadn't heard it before it would sound insulting just by the context.
However, speaking of cultural differences I know that when I was in college a lot of people use to make fun of the Indian women they saw around camp is. A lot of them would have cast markings on their foreheads, basically a red dot to show they were unmarried, and of course American students would joke about it around their backs calling them disrespectful names like dots, dotties, dot-heads, button-heads, and similar things which really were insulting. While I would agree with them putting such cast markings on their foreheads seems to me a bit silly or ridiculous I also know it isn't nice to make fun of them for it since they come from a completely different culture where such things are not only common it is expected behavior. In any case I was only joking with Ishan, and no offense was intended. I was more annoyed with him calling me Champion, Mr. Champion, or some variant than I was interested in giving him a verbally insulting name. If I wanted to do that I certainly could have found a number of ways to do that. On 10/21/14, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > This is probably a cultural thing, but in England I've often heard things > like "Curry face" or similar remarks about indian food", used in quite a > racist way against people from India on packistan. For example there was a > reality program a while ago where one of the contestants got into severe > trouble for constantly calling an Indian Lady "miss poppadom" > > Of course it's all about intention, however I must admit I was a little > surprised when I saw you using the phrase, even though I know your intention > > to be innocent and you wouldn't for example, (the way some British people do > > when using such terms), call everyone from India "curry face" or similar as > > a general thing. > > Btw, isnt' Ishen from South Africa? I don't know what the sort of national > food is like over there, but perhaps "curry" doesn't exactly fit. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
