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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
I was just reading this whole Price Harry flap about his use of the word "Paki" to describe someone Pakistani .... I guess it's a bad word.
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Yup, it is. It may well be a primarily English thing. I don't know at what point it started being used derogatorily, or even if it ever has been OK, but I've only ever known it to be an insult. However, it obviously can be no older than the Indian partition, as before then Pakistani didn't exist.
It's usually applied by racist types to anyone from the Indian sub-continent irregardless of whether they are from Pakistan or India, frequently with "filthy", "dirty" or worse appended in front of it. As England has a large amount of Indian and Pakistani corner shop owners, it frequently got applied to them.
I can't comment on Prince Harry's use of it as a) I don't know the chap and b) this is the first I've heard of it.