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I've never heard the word oriental as bad...unless you mean a different pond.

I tend to go with "slant eyed opium *****" to try to avoid any confusion.

Were they pullin' my Pud?

No, it's considered bad taste around here, although it's more on the order of "colored" or "negro". More often the insult is derived from the ignorance of the speaker, not any sort of intentional slight.

I was quite shocked when I heard people in the UK openly saying that someone was a "Jew". In France, calling someone "un Juif", would sound extremely out of place, invoking some painful memories. It's still quite taboo. But the weird thing is that we don't really have another word for it. So we just don't really talk about it. We just point at the star.

asShole/sh*thead, roughly translated. Courtesy of Jimmy the Greek.

Edit: . . . f'ucking swear filters.

Edited, Feb 29th 2008 11:20pm by Jacobsdeception

You have the standard British slang used in the US that really means nothing. Bloody, ********* ******, etc. are all fairly innocuous over here and don't really have much impact.

My understanding is that cnut and **** are both 10 times less offensive in the UK vs. the US.

The literal Italian tranlation for Pig-God is about as bad as an f-bomb stateside.

The word Oriental is just one of those words that jumped on the bandwagon for political correctness. It's still widely used, just not so much when Chinese people are around. Chinese is also considered derogatory, assuming of course that the person you are referring to isn't from China.

The word Jew is fine in the US so long as it is used as a noun and not a verb, the latter meaning to swindle someone or ***** someone out of money.

The word Gay is also fine, as long as you aren't referring to something or someone that isn't homosexual, otherwise it's insulting.

In parts of the Carribean, the word Punk means homosexual as opposed to meaning ill mannered person/thug/troublemaker here in the US. Also used to refer to a genre of music and it's fans. Often times the traits associated with the word being attributed to those fans.