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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cloudbuster" data-source="post: 543382" data-attributes="member: 6653">It's the context of the term that has been used ever so loosely. A black man will call another black man 'nigger' but no one will take it as an insult. But try having a white or a non-black man calling a black man that term. See what happens. For a Chinese to call another Chinese a 'Chinaman', well what can I say but shame of him/her for not knowing the historical implications and abuse created by colonist west.The term 'Chinaman' was historically used by the westerners to degrade and 'de-human' Chinese migrants settling in US hundreds of years ago. By thinking the term has become a common term over the years does not make it 'OK' to be used.</blockquote>