Re: do germans find it offensive to be called krauts?

the captain in <BPtqf.183$6K2.82@edtnps90>:

(indispensable self-mockery)
>> Only a black may insult a black as being black,
>
>black is an ethnicity and not a country. a balck man from the US could call
>a black man from africa the "n" word and get away with it.

We're off from ethnics or geographics now. It's the "groups" that count.

>> only an American may insult an American as being American,
>> only a German may insult a German as being a German.
>>
>> Of course there are orders of magnitude between "***" or "nazi"
>> and "kraut". Perhaps "Yankee" is on that lower level, too?
>>
>
>no. americans happily call each other yankees all of the time. or yanks. and
>none of them have ever even heard the word "ami" but if they did most of
>them would think it was cute.

o.k. then - I can't judge on this. Alas, you showed us some really "pretty"
names for Southerners in a parallel post...

>and btw, i would never, ever call a german a nazi, even as a joke. there's
>no point even discussing it. i am a respectable man.

I never thought so. It was just meant as a parallel to "***" in terms of
an insult's severness.

Nevertheless, thanks for getting that straight.

Ciao,

Paul
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