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Not to argue, but some may think different with WW2 veterans and by loved ones that were over in the Pacific and they were killed.
Just like the term Nazi, we could call them Germans but then there is something lost in the translation. Just to be politically correct makes the atrocities into milk toast don't you think?.
Now if one were to attack another person in our forum by making that into a derogatory remark to someone specifically then thats a horse of a different color.

Thats like the Vietcong, would you expect anyone to call them Vietnamese Cong?

The National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Vietnamese Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam), also derogatively known as the Việt Cộng (VC), or the Front National pour la Libération (FNL), was an insurgent (partisan) organization fighting against the government of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War (1960-1975). The NLF was funded, equipped and staffed by personnel from both South Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). The Front's military organization was known as the People's Liberation Armed Forces. (PLAF). The PLAF was, according to the official history, strictly subordinated to the Lao Dong Party's General Staff in Hanoi. The term "Việt Cộng" (the Vietnamese term for Vietnamese Communist - Việt Nam Cộng Sản), was created by United States Information Agency officials for utilization by Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of South Vietnam. It was useful during his Denounce the Communists Campaign of the early 1960s since the popular South Vietnamese title for the insurgents at the time was Viet Minh, which carried negative connotations for the fledgling government. American forces during the ensuing Vietnam War continued to refer to members of the NLF as Victor Charlie or simply Charlie, from the NATO phonetic alphabet. This usage also tended to negate the "positive" title of the organization.


Chicago Manual Style (CMS): National_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_South_Vietnam. Reference.com. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/National_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_South_Vietnam (accessed: April 22, 2008).

The first recorded use of Jap was in 1860 to refer to members of the Japanese embassy in the United States. An example of benign usage was the previous naming of Boondocks Road in Jefferson County, Texas, originally named "Jap Road" when it was built in 1905 to honor a popular local rice farmer from Japan. Later popularized during World War II to describe those of Japanese descent, Jap was then commonly used in newspaper headlines to refer to the Japanese and Imperial Japan. "Jap" became a derogatory term during the war, more so than "Nip."Some in the United States Marine Corps also tried to combine the word "Japs" with "Apes" to create a new description, "Japes", for the Japanese. However, this new word never became popular. Veteran and author Paul Fussell explains the usefulness of the word during the war for creating effective propaganda by saying that "Japs" "was a brisk monosyllable handy for slogans like "Rap the Jap" or "Let's Blast the Jap Clean Off the Map."
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And of course the word Nip was an abbreviation of Nipponese

And of course these are considered derogatory especially by the Japanese because it reminds them of the defeat of Japan, and is considerable embarrassment to them. Of course they used derogatory remarks to our POWs. Even the American Indians used terms such as white eyes, and pale face. Where do you want to go?

Using derogatory remarks are a form of self defense because they cannot express their feelings with compassion sometimes. IMHO