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Subject: Re: Sv: [AN1x-list] Sequencers ?

From: "PinheadX" <pinheadx@...>
Date: 2000-08-07

From: <angelphkt@...>

> The word "japs" is a ∗blatent∗ form of racism and highly offends me, but i
> kept my mouth shut on this one because i didn't want to get into a big
> converation about this crap that we are doing now....

That's an example of how our cultures are different...I always thought that
"japs" was a kind of "gently diminutive". Here in Brazil we call them
"japas", but it's not offensive, in fact it's a common nickname of many
japanese descendant...

That's my last post about this,
PinheadX