Thread: PAKI. Is it offensive?
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Old Oct 8, 2009 | 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Alps Pacino
I know what your saying and agree but how do you go about asking someone where they are from without causing grief as most of them who ae classed as "asian" were probably born in britain so are actually british lol.
Why would you need to, if their racial heritage is so ambiguous to you that you cant even tell where they are from, then why on earth would you need to label them with a term about something you dont even understand well enough to know if it applies to them or not?
If I dont know if someone is welsh or not, then I dont refer to them as welsh, if I dont know if someone is from pakistan or not, I dont refer to them as being so.
Why would you want to?






Far far to easy to offend people these days a no one knows what to say or what to call people as to not cause offence. People have mistaken me for a scouser before and a geordie but although i took great offence i didnt start kickign off and calling them a racist and trying to get them the sack lol
You say you took great offence at it, so surely you can see why others take offence too?
And if it happened to you EVERY SINGLE DAY of your life that someone continually called you a geordie when you were, eventually it might wind you up enough to say something.
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