I repeat, Crow! If a fellow Yank utters said epithet, no problem. If some snot-nosed Euro-Yuppie follows suit, there's a problem:-)
If an African-American jokingly refers to his compatriot by the infamous N-word, ok! If I or another Caucasian were to, definitely NOT ok.
Germans have a long history of looking down on the Poles as a farmland of slow-witted dullards, fit to feed and mass-produce for Germany, but for not much else, if anything. Same view of Denmark. A land of butter, cheese, dairy and pretty girls, but take it seriously? You must be kidding.
This once pervasive attitude has largely changed, except perhaps among the Pegidists.
If an African-American jokingly refers to his compatriot by the infamous N-word, ok! If I or another Caucasian were to, definitely NOT ok.
Germans have a long history of looking down on the Poles as a farmland of slow-witted dullards, fit to feed and mass-produce for Germany, but for not much else, if anything. Same view of Denmark. A land of butter, cheese, dairy and pretty girls, but take it seriously? You must be kidding.
This once pervasive attitude has largely changed, except perhaps among the Pegidists.