Ned Ludd

The absence of emoticons is confusing.

Can you possibly think we didn't know that?

I tried to explain to my Canadian boss that "paki" is an offensive term in Britain and I think he thought I was mental..... His response was "so, what should they be called?", he had a point I guess, I didn't have an answer to that...

Why don't you ask them.

- I think that sentance is more offensive than the word Paki?

Really infuriates me because its such a widespread term to refer to people of Indian origin IMO. Also IIRC calling an Indian a Paki is offensive for one part because they are from India not Pakistan.

Now, I can understand what your boss is saying, and referring to "them" in that manner is derogatory. How about telling him to learn who "they" are, where "they" are from and refer to "them" in the correct term.

modern deffination of luddite...

destroyer, one who dosen't like change, opposed to 'the new', one who lives in the past, one who rants and bemoans.....for the mere sake of it! has no real opinion or worthy of comprhensive speech; just rants because they is bored outta thier tiny brains and can't move forward except towards the box!

I'm with you on cell phones, but the empoyers have now bequeathed I must carry a blackberry. I take delight on leaving in my coat pocket or on my desk. I check my work email regularly and if it is SO important dont email it, track me down and tell me

Thank you Dave, for paying my wages.

As a public servant thank you for paying mine

I don't pay tax.

You charlatan! I will have to speak to my mate at CRA

As far as he sees it, it's the same as calling someone British a "brit" or an Australian an "aussie".... I'm not sure if he's making a distinction between someone of Pakistani or Indian origin however.

Since coming to Canada I've heard some racist things that have made my hair curl, the above being mild in comparison. Which is odd being as it's a multicultural immigrant society - I don't understand

Well you asked the question so I gave the answer.

My apologies for just trying to be helpfull.

Maybe you have changed/expanded your demographic and mix with a broader group of people then you did back home. This happened to me when I moved from Australia to the UK and suddenly racism became a lot more obvious than it had been in Australia...