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Re: Asians find the term ''yellow line'' offensive |
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Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Fri Feb 12 17:14:34 2010, in response to Re: Asians find the term ''yellow line'' offensive, posted by Fytton on Fri Feb 12 09:37:23 2010. Actually, I'm not enamoured of that term,Yes, but you don't react to it the way Japanese and Pakistani people do. though I use it here out of courtesy to the Yanks (8-) Just let's not mention the Cockney Rhyming Slang there... I regard myself as English, though I'm probably part Anglo-saxon and part Celt (Cornish). I think I've got the full set somewhere in my ancestry -- Welsh, English, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, and rumors that I haven't been able to quite nail down of some Spaniards in the 16th or 17th Century (as they're allegedly on the Cornish side, and the records there are pretty awful). I tend to tick the Welsh box out of it all just making it much simpler than convoluted explanations. I think that 'Britain' is a somewhat artificial construct. It's occasionally said that the only people who call themselves 'British' are people who aren't..... It's certainly a word that's fallen into the hands of scoundrels... |
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