Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 28, 2002 at 09:36:59 from 195.93.50.9:
In Reply to: Re: Forbidden Words posted by John Lambert on March 27, 2002 at 18:40:15:
When I last looked, quite recently, although "Darkie" had become "Darlie", the Chinese name on the toothpaste tube had not changed; it still said "Black Man Toothpaste", and it was advertised as such all over the MTR (Hong Kong's excellent Underground)
Presumably the assumption is that few people likely to be offended read Chinese, but the other assumption is that it is OK to be racist in Chinese.