So you dropped to his level just to prove your point? it's still
flaming no matter how you try to approve it. i got it how about
calling him by his name to show you are a adult that moderates the list.
At 04:17 AM 10/22/2014, you wrote:
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 <d...@xgam.org> 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.
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