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webbo3 | 17:25 Mon 05th Jun 2023 | News
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https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-autosport/1777242/martin-brundle-zhou-guanyu-spanish-grand-prix-f1-news

\\Martin Brundle has been criticised by fans for using a derogatory remark about F1 driver Zhou Guanyu during the Spanish Grand Prix. Brundle called Zhou a “Chinaman” as he commentated over a stunning battle between the Alfa Romeo star, Nico Hulkenberg and Yuki Tsunoda in the opening stages. //

\\As the trio battled, Brundle said: “The German, The Chinaman, the man from Japan and from Finland’s not too far from them either. A very cosmopolitan race.” However, fans were quick to highlight Brundle’s error on social media.//

He's from China, that would make him a Chinaman, a bit like a French man, German.

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"Chinaman" is not considered the slightest bit derogatory nor offensive by anyone with more than one braincell to rub together.
22:33 Mon 05th Jun 2023
Perlease, he is a man from China is he not?
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Exactly ^
I thought commentators were supposed to use names, not nationalities! Or have I missed something?
Lucky he didnt call them The Hun ,The Nip, and The Chink then...For Funks Sake
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"Chinaman" is described as "archaic or offensive" in British English, and as "usually offensive" in US English, by Collins:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/chinaman

Wikipedia says
"While the term has no negative connotations in older dictionaries and the usage of such compound terms as Englishman, Scotsman, Frenchman, Dutchman, Irishman, and Welshman are sometimes cited as unobjectionable parallels, the term is noted as having pejorative overtones by modern dictionaries.

Its derogatory connotations evolved from its use in pejorative contexts regarding Chinese people and other Asians as well as its grammatical incorrectness . . . "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinaman

The use of 'Chinaman' to describe a left-arm wrist spinner in cricket is now finally being challenged at last too. From Andy Bull, in The Guardian, in 2017:
"To Dharamsala then, and the fourth Test between India and Australia, where a 22-year-old debutant named Kuldeep Yadav just ripped through Australia’s batting order. Yadav bowls left-arm wrist spin. Which, and here’s the hitch, means he is known as a ‘chinaman’ bowler. Problem being, of course, that the rest of the world knows that word as a dated, offensive, racial epithet. Slow left-arm wrist spinners being only a little more common than Chinese Test cricketers, the game has, somehow, been able to get away with using this label for the best part of a century now. Credit then to Andrew Wu, a sports reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, who called it out on Twitter and in a column last week."
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/28/the-spin-cricket-chinaman-phrase
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I thought Chinamen was a Cricket term but what do I know?
And it's not as if the most nasal of commentators was accusing him of developing the Wuhan plague.
I though a Chinaman was the bloke who carried all that clay to make our tea cups.
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Just because Collins says its offensive doesnt make it so....
"Problem being, of course, that the rest of the world knows that word as a dated, offensive, racial epithet"

since when have the chinese been a race ?
More precious nonsense. In demanding that thought and language be restricted to that which suits their faux virtue signalling sensibilities, the foolish ‘woke’ are constructing an intellectual prison for the world and are far from ‘awakened’. 1984 here we come.
The words 'Zhou Guanyu' and 'race' are seldom used in a sentence.

Perhaps he is one of TTTs old China's.
Brundle is English.
So of course he can be offensive, ignorant and nasty. It is what the rest of the world expect of us.
"Chinaman" is not considered the slightest bit derogatory nor offensive by anyone with more than one braincell to rub together.

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