Am i racist?

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I think a difference though is that if I'm asked where I'm from I don't get the follow-up 'but where are you really from' or 'where are your people from', which is what this latest palace issue is about and what my daughter gets.
It's another really complicated issue.

Totally agree.
 
I think a difference though is that if I'm asked where I'm from I don't get the follow-up 'but where are you really from' or 'where are your people from', which is what this latest palace issue is about and what my daughter gets.
It's another really complicated issue.

spot on
 
Just been on the bbc cricket page to congratulate the great effort by England today....and my post got removed..,
As i called the Pakistan players pakis
Just don't get it..,.
Australia= Aussies
America= yanks
England/British...brits.,.no **** seems to have a problem with that.,,BBC are racists
Given the all important question you pose in the title of the thread 'Am I racist'?
I'm extremely surprised that the question hasn't been asked...Well are you? Or do you consider yourself so?

My opinion,for what it's worth,is that you've used a word that is taboo in society these days and is deemed as offensive to Pakistanis.
 
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That was forty years ago, they’d no more do it there now, than we would here.
Not quite true. I’ve lived here for almost 9 years now, and not long after I arrived I remember seeing a news report about the aussies smashing the pakis in a cricket game. It’s not a term that’s used much at all so it doesn’t have any racial connotations to the vast majority of the population. It wasn’t used with malice and was a genuine shortening of the name Pakistan. However the use of the word in the UK is undoubtedly racist as it’s been used in a derogatory manner for a long time and is entrenched in our culture as a racist slur. You’d have to be on a wind up, or be an idiot to think that it’s not racist.
 
how many pakistanis are in africa

Don’t know about Pakistanis but there’s a decently-sized community of people of Indian and Iranian heritage in East Africa. Freddie Mercury’s family being an example. Indo-Iranians in Africa are some of the last surviving Zoroastrians in the world.