Nah not really... not "ONLY people who want to insult pakistanis" use the word. In america and australia, its used almost always to refer to them as a race.

And to what you said, the racist guys that use it are dumbasses. Shit. Fancy trying to insult someone by calling them the race that they are... fuckin good one. And the pakistanis, it seems to me like they are either all trying to pull the race card that never fails, or they are ashamed of being who they are.

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Ok, so that is America and Australia......if I agree with you - Do not take my words out of context, if you cared to read the rest I came to mention the specific place of U.K, which is what I was directly referring to....I am from the U.K and so is Daubs - I have specifically mentioned the U.K in many places, and as my post to sonic shows I have no idea if that word is insulting in America....

But if that is your strongest reply, then fuck, you might as well not have posted....

Racist guys are always dumbasses.....you try and act like Paki was all happily used when it first came into to being in the U.K, but no, it was from the word go used by racists because they could not bear to be respectful enough to refer to Pakistanis as Pakistanis...hence they gave the word a negative meaning, used it as an insult and disparaging term...this is what you need to understand, this is the U.K...

If a word has been associated to describe you negatively and insult you, and was not introduced by you, then why should you have to accept it?

Why should you have to accept a word that has such a meaning behind it? The answer is, you should not....

And finally read up in the dictionary...

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=paki

It is an offensive slang in the U.K, and if you are not sure what an offensive slang is, nigger falls in the same category....

It wasnt an argument, just an observation. Im just saying its a stupid thing to be offended by.. the people that used it in a derogatory way are idiots, and pakistanis who were first offended by it are idiots. If I was a racist british dude, i'd call them something that was actually offensive, like sand nigger or "shitskin" because their skin is brown. Its easy to think of better racist terms than paki. Its like japanese getting angry at people calling them japs, or australians getting angry at people calling them aussies.

And dont misunderstand me again, im not trying to make you not get offended by it, im just saying the word and the racial connotations it carries are stupid.

It isnt the same as the word nigger, by the way. Nigger isnt and abbreviation of their races actual name, it is describing the part of them that caused them to be perceived as a lower race, their skin... And theres a huge history behind it.

Its not the word that matters so much, its how you use the word......

Wasn't this some silly card game from Japan? Pakiman, right?

People get pissed off wiv the word paki cos all indian people get called it where im from. Its just lazyness, some indians as you may or may not know are bengali or something else but still get called a paki.

I suppose its like canadians getting called yanks or americans getting called brits just cos of their colour and language

Psh, Canadians wish they could be called Yanks.

I'm never called yank. :(

you people do know the word nigger originates from some of African countries so comparing pakis to aussies is a bullshit argument. again u have to know he history