If you are being called a yankee do you consider it offensive? If you are calling someone by that name do you mean it as offensive?
2007-02-03 22:51:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
The 1810, 1830 and 1850 census showed the South to be made up of roughly 50% Celtic, 30% English and the remaining 20% were German, French or Spanish. The Irish Potatoes famine of 1846-1850 killed a million plus Irishmen, the problem there was food but the British took it for themselves. Another good example of who has suffered under slavery. The real point the majority of English settled up North and continued to this day their opinion of superiority and want of control over our lot. Originally a yankee was descended from New Englanders who were and still are arrogant, rude. have no pride in their heritage, money and family name means more then their forefathers or their country. We have a saying there are two kinds of yankees; a yankee and a damn yankee. A damn yankee is one that has moved here and stayed! Like anything to include the "N" word the word yankee can be used as a friendly way of acknowledging a room mate, neighbor or even a girlfriend. However depending on the situation it can something worse then the "N" word.
God Bless You and Our Southern People.
2007-02-03 23:20:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yankee was the name in England for a perfumed, make-up wearing dandy in england I believe. It was a slight against the rebelling clueless rich youth. The term was used as a slight against the people living in the American colonies because the English at the time didn't really understand the nature of the American colonist. The name has been used for years and the meaning has become rather muddled. I always thought it meant they were masturbaters. Like when they referred to Homosexuals as Poofs.
2007-02-03 23:01:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I would not use this word myself...I am from Alabama and I can definitely say that if you call someone a Yankee (meaning someone not from a southern state) there you mean it to be offensive.
2007-02-03 22:56:12 · answer #3 · answered by SparklyThingz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heavens NO, not offensive at all!!! My goodness the Civil War has been over for over one hundred years ago. Never called another person a Yankee, no need to. If you're from the eastern United States be proud of who you are and your ancestry. And if you don't know who your ancestry is; then look it up and I'll bet you had several who fought and died for their beliefs. My goodness, if it wasn't for them you wouldn't be here.
2007-02-03 23:12:09 · answer #4 · answered by pattycakes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like any name given to a group of people (in this case non-southerners) it can be offensive of not.
Honestly I don't think it is often used as an insult, and even if it was most people would not be offended.
Thank goodness the PC police have not started cracking down on it.
2007-02-03 23:28:38 · answer #5 · answered by Stone K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In England, it just means someone from America. I guessed in American it meant someone from New York. I never thought it as being anything offensive.
2007-02-03 22:55:19 · answer #6 · answered by shamess 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I call Americans that. It isn't really offensive. It doesn't really have the punch of a normal insult.
2007-02-03 23:12:56 · answer #7 · answered by Big Daddy Jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In America,(except, of course, the Bronx) I think it is always used to be offensive and is received in that spirit, too . Of course, tt can be also used humorously, as if the word was MEANT to offend.
2007-02-03 23:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by and_y_knot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if i'm calling someone a Yankee, comming from me it must be dirty.
2007-02-03 22:55:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in NY, I have "Yankee" written on "T-shirts" !
I'm proud to be a "Yank" (American) too !
I take it as a "Compliment" !
2007-02-03 22:56:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋