04-05-14, 07:40 AM
In a similar vein, "stan" means "place of the". Afghanistan is where the Afghans come from, etc etc.
When I was a kid, we used to use the paki shop to get our sweets. We weren't being racist - we were possibly ignorant, for those good shopkeepers may well have been from India, but we meant no malice whatsoever. And surely that's where racism should be defined, when something is meant in a derogatory way?
Clarkson is, as others have said, a buffoon, there's much more important things to worry about!
When I was a kid, we used to use the paki shop to get our sweets. We weren't being racist - we were possibly ignorant, for those good shopkeepers may well have been from India, but we meant no malice whatsoever. And surely that's where racism should be defined, when something is meant in a derogatory way?
Clarkson is, as others have said, a buffoon, there's much more important things to worry about!