This is easy to say, as it comes from my heart:
If anyone of Japanese ethnics were offended by my use of a word, I deeply
apologize. It was not my intention.
I was NOT referring to an ethnic group, nor to a people, only to "a habit
within Japanese industry" - to present inherent noise in a specific way
which I don't like. I guess that my criticism of this particular measuring=
method "spilled over" to the whole sentence and placed "Japs" in a negative=
context..
Here in my part of the world we have no history of Pearl Harbour, nor have=
we had infected debates like "Japs are taking over California." Negative
connotations which may be present among people of my age, were presented to=
us by Hollywood post-war productions, it which all Japanese were described=
as more evil than evil.
The relationship between "us" and Japan and it's people is so neutral that=
I still have difficulties relating to Japanese as an "ethnic group".
May I end this debate with a question for everybody to consider in silence?=
?
What will happen in the world when every group is ethnically protected.....=
except white males in the USA??
Klas.
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