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[quote=Anonymous]I'm white and my DH is not white and an immigrant. I would say that this is a phrase that we use in our family and he *might* use it outside the family but only with people he knows and who have similar lives. We would never use the phrase with a stranger when we're out and about, unless we immediately picked up that they were from the same background. Growing up, people in my family and in my community used the phrase in a really derogatory way, and so hearing it out of the blue from a white stranger is uncomfortable and rings alarm bells for me. I think it's one of those phrases that's like racist epithets- maybe it's sort of ok to use if you're part of the in-group and using it about yourself, but even then it's tricky and I find it complicated to write out how and when it's ok.[/quote]
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