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Originally Posted by GoldHeart

'half cast' is another awful one , you can really tell the old generations stuck in their ways.... if they still use that outdated term.

I’ve heard a lot of young people (and black people, even) innocently say half-caste as well and to me that one just is what it is. I get that there’s a history associated with it but to me it just sounds like a dated term. I wouldn’t have a heart attack over it.

On a similar token you do get black people sometimes refer to Asian-owned Afro-Asian stores in the U.K. as ‘paki shop/s’ and again to me that one just is. It’s literally short-hand for Pakistan and left to me I wouldn’t say it always has to be associated with negative tidings. British-Asians don’t have anything like the same historical association with racial abuse as black people so I wouldn’t bother going against someone’s defence for using that term innocently. Especially when it’s also even people of colour who use it.