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This article is about British restaurant
stereotype. For the pejorative term it derives from, see
Chink.
Usage in the United
Kingdom
In the United
Kingdom, a chinky (sometimes known as a
chinky chonky[1]) is a
slang name for a Chinese takeaway restaurant or the
meal that one buys from such a restaurant. The name "chinky" is the adjectival form of chink and, like
chink, is an ethnic slur for Chinese and other Oriental people.[2] After
several campaigns by the Scottish
Executive, more people in Scotland now acknowledge that this name is
indirectly racist.[3]
However, the Broadcasting Standards Commission held in
2002, after a complaint about the BBC One programme The Vicar
of Dibley, that when used as the name of a type of
restaurant or meal, rather than as an adjective applied to a person
or group of people, the word carries no racist connotation.[4]
However, a year earlier, the Commission's counterpart, the Radio Authority, apologised for the offence
caused by an incident where a DJ on Heart 106.2 used the
term.[5] Ofcom, the successor organisation
of the two, classifies it as a derivative of the racist term
"chink" but notes that the degree to which the term is deemed
offensive varies according to age or ethnic origin of the
listener.[6]
Usage in
India
More commonly referred to as chinky than
chink, it is an ethnic slur used in India for people with
mongoloid features in general and people
from North-East India and Nepal in particular.[7][8]
Although the Government of India does not
classify its citizens by race, the
Government does recognize castes and tribes. Most people
from North-East India are classified as tribals and speak one of
the Tibeto-Burman languages.
See also
- Chippy — a takeaway fish
and chips shop
- Paki
shop — term used to describe a shop run by a person of South
Asian decent or birth.
- Madrassi — an ethnic
slur used against people of South India.
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