FCS073 Student racial slur

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[Stormryder]

Boyo, someones alittle paranoid.
Words only hurt if you give them the power.

[Michael]

Shouldn't that be chan & kun?

[Guy]

Oh yeah!!!

Didn't I call this one months ago???

;)

[Wolf]

I wanna see him try and force Kun out when he says it.

["J"]

LMAO!

[dejah]

Hate to nitpick, but yeah, I agree it should be "chan" and "kun." Though I imagine the artist was understandably more focused on calibrating Karl's response just right.

[Amagica]

I thought chan was for close friend for if the person is much younger, like a small child.... though I guess for sixth graders you may use it? But I figured it was close friends, girls, or for small children. Not students unless you knew them well. Or were more easy going I think? But hey, I've never been a teacher or gone to school in Japan so I don't know.

Love the comic by the way. I really look forward to new updates.

[Khalid (Comic Chef)]

Maybe things were different where I was teaching. No teacher ever put "chan" after a Junior High School girl's name. Always, "san." I always thought you used "chan" for friends and family, not female students.

[b]

occasionally a teacher will have to apologize because they called some poor kid san or kun by mistake because they have an androgynous name (like Haruhi, Takumi, or Yuki)

[Gaijinmonogatari]

I'm in the "don't use -chan" boat. Sixth-graders are a little old for that, even if they're still in elementary.

First and second graders don't seem to mind it at all ^_^

[Busy]

After watching so much anime, when I first started working in Japan, I also expected my co-workers to also call me "chan". But quickly noticed that no other women at the office was called "chan". Even the bimbos that serve the coffee were not called that.

It would be the equivalent of calling someone "cutie", which is not very professional and can be considered as sexual harassment.

[Busy]

On a side note, I have never heard the "coon" used as racist term in the west coast of the US.

But most languages have some words that sound like swear or racist words in English. And some words in English can sound like swear or racist terms in other languages. Do we start banning those English words?

It does not make sense for Carl to get upset over it, especially since "kun" was likely used in Japan centuries before "coon" was ever used as a racist term in the US.

[Omniscia]

Huh. I thought '-san' was for those of equal or higher status, and that '-kun' was used for those that were lower in general. In fact I thought that '-kun' was more likely to be used when referring to a female than when referring to a male.

Of course, I read this on Wikipedia, so there may have been a few inaccuracies.

[Shanya Almafeta]

I'm beginning to think maybe he didn't do that much studying before he agreed to teach there.

[dr pepper]

um if "kun" is for lower status and "san" is for higher, then calling boys by one and girls by the other is sexist.

[Angel H.]

Stormryder has obviously never been called a ni****, a sp**, a ch***, a fa****, or a we*****.

And Busy, nobody's trying to prevent you from using all the racist or racist-sounding words you want. Don't worry. These are just the experiences of one Black man in Japan. And as one Black woman who used to live in Japan, I can say that from my experience, I can get a little tripped up when I hear a foreign word that sounds like an offensive English word. But then I realize my mistake and move on. (Like Karl does.) That's one of the consequences of living in a society as a racial minority.

[dejah]

It must be regional. I'm in the Fukuoka area and it's always "-chan" for young women and "-kun" for young men. But I've come to realize Kyushu can be pretty different from other areas of Japan...