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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A man who was either homeless and/or has substance abuse issues/mental illness was walking towards me last night on a semi isolated street, in that unsteady halting way. I was trying to walk around him with my head bent down to stay out of his way when he snarled "stop staring at me, you f****ing chink".

I kept walking ahead. For a split second I thought he would turn around and start following me. There were other people ahead of me so I just started walking faster to catch up to them and then I was in an area where there were many more people.

I've been called "chink" by all sorts of people since I was a kid in elementary school. "Go back to your country". [My country? I was born here.]

So it surprises me how much it still stings when someone calls me a chink. It's even hard to write that. That a man who was probably homeless thinks I'm less than him because of my skin color. It shouldn't bother me, after all this time!  Right?!

So I'm just trying to get this out of my system. Weirdly I feel ashamed and couldn't even tell anyone IRL that this happened.

Thanks for listening, strangers on an anonymous messaging board.[/quote]

Weird. That term is multiple decades old and hasn’t been used for many decades.  Wonder what that guy’s background is that he’s citing words from the way back then. [/quote]

Not OP and I'm a millennial.  Wouldn't say that it is decades old but growing up in northeast PA in mid-to-late 2000s during high school, I've been called that a handful of times.  My currently elementary school age kids (who are east asian) never encountered that word (I asked), but I know they told me some kids using "ching chong"/phonetically "asian" tones at school. Not sure if they're trying to use it in a derogatory way. [/quote]

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