Re: banana?

Bart Mathias wrote:
I'm another of the apparent majority who had never heard such a use of
"banana" before.

I kind of wish I had skipped this thread. I don't enjoy that kind of
education.


I think I heard the expression before coming to the thread, but now
I wonder, maybe it wasn't in context of English, or from "white" NSoE
to call Asian there, but rather pejorative way Chinese people to call
the children of emigrants, who are losing the anscesters language,
cultrue and tradition, losing the identity as Chinese?

(well, it can be Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese, etc... just I think
the number of emigration from China is much more...)

Then the message this word carry is quite different from racism...


muchan
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