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I'm doing a report on old disney cartoons, and I wanted some details on the word for my report.

2006-12-14 07:55:24 · 3 answers · asked by ? 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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It's short for "Japanese" as I'm sure you know. It was in use before the war to a degree, by Americans and Brits in the Far East. After Pearl Harbor, it came into more general use. It's now considered to be somewhat demeaning.

2006-12-14 08:00:08 · answer #1 · answered by jim 7 · 1 0

Jap is obviously the first three letters of Japanese. It's simply a nickname that many people used for Japanese people when many of them started coming to America around the turn of the 20th century. During and after WWII, people started using the term in a derogatory fashion due to the animosity between America and Japan.

2006-12-14 09:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by lacrosse321 2 · 0 0

it particularly is that if he's no longer Jewish. A Jew who calls somebody a "eastern" (all caps, individuals, no longer "eastern"), isn't being complimentary lots of the time, even nonetheless it relatively is extra of a remark on the mothers and fathers' permissiveness/spoiling than on the lady herself; the youngster has to learn some way. between pals, it relatively is a type of thank you to tease one yet another, yet you need to understand somebody tremendously lots, and on the completed, it relatively is something you avert. the two way, your co-worker became out of line.

2016-10-14 23:03:04 · answer #3 · answered by dusik 4 · 0 0

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