It’s just scientific fact that they love being slaves to corporations unlike us, the proudly independent and individualistic Westerners smuglord

Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude

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    it also just depends on the word for some reason, english is very vibes based and inconsistent in its rules and connotations.

    A Greek

    sounds decently normal

    A Kenyan

    seems fine

    An Egyptian

    commonly said

    A Chinese

    This sounds weird and bad. Couldn’t tell you why but it just sounds racist compared to the other ones.

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      Yeah, turns out the lingual patterns my grampa used to refer to Chinese and Japanese people is not great, in 2024.

      edit: To be clear, he used different slurs, he wasn’t so racist as to use the same slur for Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Laoceans, and island people.