Quote Originally Posted by B. Oddie View Post
Naively, I used to never understand why the term '****' was taken as so offensive. My reasoning being that surely it is just short for 'Pakistani' just as 'Brit' is to 'British'.

I realised later that the offence is in the fact that the term is used sweepingly to describe anyone of south Asian origin which is ignorant.
And it’s mostly always been used in a negative way too.