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Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2015, 18:32 PMHux

Proper British voiceacting.

That OKW audio is a fucking disgrace. Every piece of information you get sounds like it's coming from Arnie while he's half-way through curling off a fat one.

Ugh.

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2015, 17:45 PMSchewi

Kangaroos with piats running around in a blob of doom.

Jump back to quoted post3 Apr 2015, 08:43 AMGooper

Congratulations on the Relic Team for their communication...this game is a terrific one and I am excited with what has been laid out...the last ten years have been great...the next ten will be as well !

Jump back to quoted post1 Apr 2015, 07:39 AMCabreza

It's pretty fascinating to see how split the community is about this issue.

It isn't so much the word that is the issue but instead the history and imagery that word conjures up. The United States waged massive and extremely effective propaganda war aimed at dehumanizing the Japanese during WWII and in all those posters, movie reels, etc. the Japanese were referred to as either "Japs" or "Nips". The propaganda was so enduring that those originally neutral words became permanently associated with the derogatory and dehumanizing imagery of that era in countries that fought in the Pacific War.

When you say "Jap" a person whose country was not exposed to that propaganda they might picture something like this:



But when you say "Jap" to an American you are conjuring up images and negativity like this:



While "Jap" may have been a neutral term at first it became a derogatory slur in the US and other countries that fought in the Pacific largely due to it's association with the dehumanizing propaganda of the era. A person not exposed to that shared cultural history would have a very different understanding of the word than one who was.

Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2015, 17:59 PMMajorBloodnok

To clarify: I have never seen "Japs", or "John Jap", or "Nips" as racial slurs. It is the equivalent of "Tommy/Tommies" or "Jerries".

"Japs" is short for Japanese; " Nips" is short for "Nipponese" (which is closer to the Western version of pronouncing 'Nihon' =Japan).