"canadian" is the new "n" word in usa

Chrissy Canadian · "canadian" is the new "n" word in usa

i saw this article in the paper here. very weird indeed...

"Last August, a blogger in Cincinnati going by the name CincyBlurg reported that a black friend from the southeastern U.S. had recently discovered that she was being called a Canadian. "She told me a story of when she was working in a shop in the South and she overheard some of her customers complaining that they were always waited on by a Canadian at that place. She didn't understand what they were talking about and assumed they must be talking about someone else," the blogger wrote.

"After this happened several times with different patrons, she mentioned it to one of her co-workers. He told her that ‘Canadian' was the new derogatory term that racist Southerners were using to describe persons they would have previously referred to [with the N-word.]"

A similar case in Kansas City was reported last year on a Listserv, or electronic mailing list, used by linguistics experts. A University of Kansas linguist said that a waitress friend reported that "fellow workers used to use a name for inner-city families that were known to not leave a tip: Canadians. ‘Hey, we have a table of Canadians.... They're all yours.' "

Stefan Dollinger, a postdoctoral fellow in linguistics at University of British Columbia and director of the university's Canadian English lab, speculated that the slur reflects a sense of Canadians as the other.

"This ‘code' word, is the replacement of a no-longer tolerated label for one outsider group, with, from the U.S. view, another outsider group: Canadians. It could have been terms for Mexicans, Latinos etc. but this would have been too obvious," he said. "What's left? Right, the guys to the north."

marc baltique

that's so lame.

but no one i associate with uses the word "canadian" to mean anything other than someone or something from canada so maybe it's a lot of hot air.

and at least you're not called a septic tank.
septic tank = yank in 'cockney rhyming slang'

Chrissy Canadian

lol well yeah i guess so.

from what i understand its more in the southern states and it started from some lawyers who identified blacks on a jury as "canadians", which was a code word, so they wouldnt appear outwardly rasict... it got some curious attention here in canada, but we take everything with a grain of salt.

wewantourdarbyback

chrissy you are a canadian

Chrissy Canadian

hahaha

LynnT

and proud of it aint ya girl x x x x

Chrissy Canadian

LynnT