[TenTec] PC and Patriotism

[Richard]

We've been around this issue several times.. but it just won't go away.  
Perhaps because I'm sort of a multicultural person I take offense at 
the 
notion that we can't make any distinctions, and that we must be 
"careful" 
in the terms we use .. unless, like most (here's the cynic), it's a 
private 
conversation that we don't think will be overheard by anyone 
differenent 
that us ...  You know .. the only place that Baptists don't say "hello" 
to 
each other is in the liquor store ..

I'm truly sorry if someone doesn't like the term "ricebox" or "jap", 
but 
that's sort of your personal problem.  The folks who build the radios 
that 
are referred to by these terms do a superior job at building radios 
that 
perform well.  It's Americans .. or maybe caucasians ... bless their 
hearts 
...  that need to get over the language.  The people to whom the 
refences 
are made, just rake in the $$, and don't worry too much about it.

I'm still trying to figure out why these (or other terms) are seen as 
perjorative?  It seems to me that "ricebox" refers to a product of high 
quality and decent (at the very worst) performance.  My IC-781 was a 
"ricebox", and by darn the 7800 will be  a "ricebox" too.

My spouse is Asian, and as a result, a huge portion of my family is .. 
uh .. 
Asian.  I eat a LOT of rice at my house, and a variety of other things 
including fish maw (that's stomach, by the way, delicious saute'd ), 
fish 
eyes (truly impressed my once soon to be inlaws, much like olives with 
pits), sea cucumber (it's a "slug" in case you aren't familiar with 
this 
delicacy), tripe .. ok, I have to draw a limit SOMEWHERE ... ::-)   and 
a 
range of other things you PC-sensitive types have never considered 
bringing into the same room as your lips.

My spouse doesn't find the term "ricebox" offensive.  She thinks it's 
pretty 
funny, considering the fact that until earlier last year, all of my 
primary 
radios have been "riceboxes" since the early 80's.  So why should you 
think it's offensive?  Most peoples of the world celebrate their 
'differences" -- except for white Americans who somehow think that it 
is 
not "correct" to "notice" that someone else is short, or green.

Why not just get over it?  "Riceboxes" are good radios, and there's 
absolutely nothing negative implied by the term .. if anything it's a 
compliment.  "Darn thang's good as that ol' "ricebox" I used to have on 
the farm".  The Orion's a good radio, too ....

Grant/NQ5T

 
 
Excellent and well expressed post Grant.  The sad or down side to this subject is this reaction to good natured colloquialisms are the effects of the insidious "brain washing" and sensitization which are partly the result of the pablum doled out via television entertainment and other pop culture phenomena. I see it all the time here in "Canuck" land. The dangerous underbelly of this "disease" are those who would cheerfully criminalize such things in the ever expanding attempt to remake the world in their image......God save us from the "thought cops"!!
 
Richard. VE3MFN  



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