Striker wrote:Who do I think of when someone says curry muncher? Someone who eats curry. Is that limited to India? NO! Do I think of India when someone says curry muncher? NO! And neither should anyone else with a working brain!
According to you, if you were offended by me calling you pie muncher I have to back off because your feelings count!
GGF!!! If you can't hack the jibe, go somewhere else to play, jack!
Yes that's better striker me boy. You landed a few in this one.
While I agree there is a negative connotation towards indians with the curry munchin 'jibe', I think we should move on and denounce this statement as racist. Thai's make and munch fantastic curries. Australia has curry munchers from east to west, north to south. I'm fairly certain the African nation has some fantastic variations on curry, as does nepal, sri lanka and England etc etc etc.
Now has anyone seen the NZ movie "curry munchers" yet? Which by the way included Indian actors and producers. Seems to me that in NZ, where curry is munched a plenty, people have moved past this lamo term being racist and have rather embraced it. This is all in the country where the NRL player in question is Indigenous to. Well whaddaya say? I call this progressive, or simply proactive. Xman, stewie, and that rather large snotball on our society called the Fairfax media I call 'reactive'. Unfortunately our education system's to blame creating a divided society of reactionary finger pointers like Xman and Stewie but I say, let's be like NZ. Surely as a multicultural society we can all be curry munchers, cant we?
So in sum...again. It is rather a naive and reactive assumption to state the comment made by this Maori man from the land Aotearoa, was indeed racist. An ethnic slur at most imo.
Thank you and good night.