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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] BE: As I recall, you're from Canada, so you can't make the claim that "Paki" is such a common insult that Bush should know it. It may be so where you are, but it isn't here. Besides, you can't even speak English half as well as he can (which is one hell of a feat), so you really can't complain. And if "Pak(i)" isn't the legitimate term for them, where'd they get the word "Pakistan"? It works in every other case: Afghanistan -> Afghan Kazakhstan -> Kazakh Kyrgyzstan -> Kyrgyz Tajikistan -> Tajik Turkmenistan -> Turkmen Uzbekistan -> Uzbek So, presumably, the word "Pakistan" should come from some people called "Paks" or "Pakis". Oh, also, regarding the Nigeria thing... Nigeria is named for the Niger River. "Nigger" is a corrupted pronunciation of "Negro", which means "black". So there's no connection between "nigger" and "Nigeria", other than the fact that they're both ultimately traceable back to the Latin word for "black". Alternatively, the slur "Paki" is derived directly from "Pakistan". So there's a basis for thinking a person from Pakistan is called a Paki. There's no basis for thinking a person from Nigeria is called a Nigger. A "Nigeri", maybe, but that's not even close to "nigger". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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