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To: JLO

No Sweat.
I guess youi've also heard "don't mean nothin'"
and several more.
Victor, Charlie, Mr Charles, slope, zip, dink, yadda-yadda.
Half are racist to today's norms and all merely serve to set you apart from the other guy - it helps when he, or someone looking very much like him, is trying to kill you.

Still, "gook" seemed to me at least to come from another generation; I think I said I rarely heard it, not never at all and perhaps more often after than during....

Not at all odd that it never occurred to me to walk up to a Korean grunt and say "gook" out loud or any other way.


89 posted on 05/31/2004 9:03:03 PM PDT by norton (from Willie & Joe: the whole point is NOT to get a Purple Heart)
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To: norton

Ya, guess I've heard them all, too. I guess I still don't get exactly what you mean by this: "Still, "gook" seemed to me at least to come from another generation; I think I said I rarely heard it, not never at all and perhaps more often after than during....

Not at all odd that it never occurred to me to walk up to a Korean grunt and say "gook" out loud or any other way."

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Maybe that's the generation thing you meant, and I didn't pick up on it. Korean.

Seems most guys I know lump all Asians together. Is that what you mean, I think. I mean since Korea, that others refer to any Asian as gook. Seems like it to me, that might be right. What do you think? Seem right to you, too?


91 posted on 06/03/2004 6:27:10 PM PDT by JLO
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