Interestingly I used possibly the most offensive thing you can call an Irish traveller and no one batted an eyelid
Yes is it. Perhaps the literal meaning of it isn't, but there's also a cultural meaning which is derogatory and offensive. I don't think many people of that heritage down here in Birmingham (even if they're from Pakistan) would thank you for using it.
you've just hit the nail on the head they call themselves Asian/afro Caribbean when they're English born and bred its them that decide to separate themselves, anyway as a white man born and raised in Yorkshire i'm now going to class myself as Asian ( it works both ways) so I can now make alsoerts of comments and it cant possibly be racist cos i'm now one aswell.................. and if anyone criticises my bad grammer and spelling that's racist as well................
so your mega intellect says, you hear people all the time on t.v saying they are Asian when they were born in this country which is England which I seem to remember from my school days is in Europe, which should make them European unless they've shifted the continents around. in the words of the great and wise Bernhard manning if a dog is born in a stable does it make it a horse ?, no. born in England = english