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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4919)	7/5/1999 9:45:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) of 12475

Piali Roy on Paki-bashing: 'Hindi-Chini bhai bhai to Hindi-Paki chai chai'. Paki-bashing is back. Instead of white neo-nazis on the rampage, NRIs and Americans of Indian origin have reclaimed that racist slur to denigrate Pakistanis during the current Kargil crisis. Newsflash to Ignorant Indians: Long before we became South Asians, desis or Indian-Americans, we were all once Pakis.......... Originating in England when south Asians began immigrating in greater numbers in the 1950s, it was the kind of language that would easily spurt out of an English racist in a Hanif Kureishi film. The Oxford English Dictionary dates its first usage in print to only 1964. It migrated to Canada by the late '60s and early '70s when its borders were allowed to be opened up. By the 1980s, 'dothead' and 'curryhead' were merely American alternates in New Jerseyite dot-buster's vocabulary. .... 216.32.165.70

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