COOLIE is it an offensive word...

[Peasie]

Re: COOLIE is it an offensive word...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It is a simple rule.. never call refer to someone in terms that knowingly <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">will</span></span> cause hurt or offense... Simple basic manners.... </div></div>

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Just my own experience here ... but growing up in Kingston, terms like &quot;coolie&quot;, &quot;poak&quot; for white skin, &quot;dundus&quot; for albino, &quot;chiney&quot;, &quot;coal pot&quot; for dark skin, were mostly used to describe others in a derogatory way. Even to their face

[Skelly]

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mi memba di white girls at school used to get offended wen dem get referred to as white ppl...

ah sah

[CeaBee]

Re: COOLIE is it an offensive word...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It is a simple rule.. never call refer to someone in terms that knowingly <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">will</span></span> cause hurt or offense... Simple basic manners.... </div></div>

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Just my own experience here ... but growing up in Kingston, terms like &quot;coolie&quot;, &quot;poak&quot; for white skin, &quot;dundus&quot; for albino, &quot;chiney&quot;, &quot;coal pot&quot; for dark skin, were mostly used to describe others in a derogatory way. Even to their face </div></div>

i remember some of those terms being used matter of factly eg : the coolie boy, the chiney man...(missa chin) etc.
i even remember a guy i went to high school with had the nickname &quot;blacka&quot; ...i don't even remember what his real name was...

[Skelly]

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everybody knows a Blacka

[mountaingal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=franksterr]&quot;Coolie&quot; was or still is a descriptive word which denotes a member of the labouring class in India, whereas &quot;ni99er&quot; was a made up word by Slavers in the American South... </div></div>

as far as i know, the brits used to call indians in india &quot;n*g*er&quot; in the days of the raj. remember also that brits were slave owners in america.

[CyberPhobic]

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Dunga Vere whe my family come from, a bay dat yuh here. Coolie dis and coolie dat. Nubady nuh mekk a big deal outta it.

Mi cuss'n use to sey, dem cawl dem coolie sayka how dem skin &quot;cool&quot;.

[barosa]

Re: COOLIE is it an offensive word...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=franksterr]&quot;Coolie&quot; was or still is a descriptive word which denotes a member of the labouring class in India, whereas &quot;ni99er&quot; was a made up word by Slavers in the American South... </div></div>

as far as i know, the brits used to call indians in india &quot;n*g*er&quot; in the days of the raj. remember also that brits were slave owners in america. </div></div>
You are right about the connection of the Brits with Slavery in America. However, I had no idea that the Brits used to call Indians in India &quot;n*g*ers&quot; in the days of the raj; one lives and learn...
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[franksterr]

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They also used to call the Arabs &quot;sand Ni99as&quot;

[Q3210]

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So coolie is not an offensive word.

[neutral]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So coolie is not an offensive word. </div></div>

It is only if the coolie is in a bad mood.

[jah_yout]

Re: COOLIE is it an offensive word...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barosa</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=franksterr]&quot;Coolie&quot; was or still is a descriptive word which denotes a member of the labouring class in India, whereas &quot;ni99er&quot; was a made up word by Slavers in the American South... </div></div>

as far as i know, the brits used to call indians in india &quot;n*g*er&quot; in the days of the raj. remember also that brits were slave owners in america. </div></div>
You are right about the connection of the Brits with Slavery in America. However, I had no idea that the Brits used to call Indians in India &quot;n*g*ers&quot; in the days of the raj; one lives and learn...
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the british used to also call them &quot;blacks&quot;...also the indegenous australians...
but now everyone thinks the term &quot;blacks&quot; refers to africans exclusively

[jah_yout]

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&quot;coolie&quot; is a broad term...
in the caribbean it usually refers to people of south asian/ indian descent....

but i have heard the term used for chinese and even african..in parts outside the carib.

it can be derogatory based on the context...but many use it with each other as a term of endearment...like african-descendants in america when they say &quot;my ni66a&quot;

[barosa]

Re: COOLIE is it an offensive word...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;coolie&quot; is a broad term...
in the caribbean it usually refers to people of south asian/ indian descent....

but i have heard the term used for chinese and even african..in parts outside the carib.

<span style="font-style: italic">it can be derogatory based on the context..<span style="font-weight: bold">.but many use it with each other as a term of endearment...like african-descendants in america when they say &quot;my ni66a&quot;</span></span> </div></div>
jah_yout, Some African Americans may have ussed &quot;ni99ers&quot; as a term of endearment but it's not the same as it is for &quot;coolie&quot;. &quot;Coolie&quot; has been the original historically accepted term for those people, while &quot;ni99er&quot; was invented to humiliate, to dis-respect and to de-humanise us as less than humans because of our race... A Big Big Difference!
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