XPost: alt.usage.english
From: HenHanna@devnull.tb

On 6/30/2024 2:18 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> Tilde  wrote:
>
>> HenHanna wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone (with knowledge of phonetics, phonology)
>>>       care to comment on how the Anglo-American views about
>>>
>>>             Japs can't pronounce L's   (the Japanese convert L's into R's)
>>
>> "japs" ????? really?
>
> It seems so. It may be a clue to the Hen being Dutch.
>
> In circles of descendants of the white Dutch from Indonesia
> 'Jap' is routinely used as a denigrating and racist term.
> The Japanese consider the use of 'Jap' for them as insulting,
> but those people either don't want to know that, or do it deliberately.
>
> The fact that their kind of white suprematist [1]
> was deeply humiliated by the Japanese during WWIIy rankled,
> and some of them never got over it.
> Some of their children and grandchildren have inherited the outlook.
>
> Also in the use of 'Jappenkamp',
> for the internment camps for women and children in Indonesia.
>
> All this has been a cause of controversy:
> some less narrowminded authors with colonial roots
> have protested vehemently against this narrow-minded outlook.
>
> All just a possibility of course.
> So directly for the Hen: are you Dutch?
>
> Jan
>
>
> [1] For comparison: The Dutch in Indonesia were in general more racist
> and exclusive that the British in their India,
> and in consequence made a far greater mess of it after WWII.
>


             Jul 21, 2004 — BEAUMONT, Texas (Reuters) - A decade-long
fight over a quiet country lane called "Jap Road" ended on Monday when
local officials voted to change ...

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