Word: pakistani
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...Pleasant Grove, a suburb of Dallas, Waqar Hassan Choudhry—a Pakistani-American—was shot dead at a convenience store on Saturday night. There was no evidence of a robbery, and local detectives told Choudhry’s family they believed his killing was motivated by “revenge...
Short for Pakistani, “right-wing politicians and white gangs” in Britain coined the term in response to substantial South Asian immigration after World War II, said Ali S. Asani, professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture...
Some suggested that the term may not be as offensive as it would have been if used decades earlier. Sen said some Pakistanis are appropriating the word for themselves. Fatima Raja ’03, a Pakistani, said the slur seemed to be gaining a modicum of acceptance...
...think it’s offensive but I feel that recently it’s been getting less so. No Pakistani from Pakistan would use that word but a Pakistani-American or a Pakistan from Britain might,” Raja said...
...talking about a time when there’s a lot of bias crimes against Muslims, against Pakistani-Americans,” said Sreenath Sreenivasan, a Columbia journalism professor and co-founder of the South Asian Journalists Association. The organization recently issued a call for responsible journalism regarding the coverage of Arab-American and South Asian American communities...