"Milos Rancic" <millosh(a)mutualaid.org> wrote:
[snip]
Also, majority of people from those countries feel
that the name
"Serbo-Croatian" is offensive term. If you say to someone from this
area that (s)he talks Serbo-Croatian, it is almost the same as you say
to some African American that (s)he is a Nigger.
This has to be a relatively recent development, because we had some very
good friends when I was small (about 30 years ago now :-) and the husband
was quite happy to say that he was, and spoke, Serbo-Croat: he was proud of
it IIRC.
I'm not aware that the term "nigger" has ever been quite so acceptable to
those to whom it has been applied in a pejorative way.
I'm also not aware that the term "Serbo-Croat" has ever been used as an
actual hate term in the same way as "nigger", but I'm happy to be educated
if you can provide sources...
--
Phil
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