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In the United Kingdom, ''chinky'' (or ''chinky chonky'', in parts of northern England known as a chinkies, always in the plural) is a slang name for a Chinese takeaway restaurant or the meal that one buys from such a restaurant. However, along with 'chink', they are named among TV's Most offensive words.〔http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/21/broadcasting.uknews〕 After several campaigns by the Scottish Executive, more people in Scotland now acknowledge that this name is indirectly racist. 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. In a document commissioned by OFCOM titled "Language and Sexual Imagery in Broadcasting: A Contextual Investigation"〔http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/radio-research/language.pdf〕 their definition of Chink was "... a term of racial offence/abuse. However, this is polarising. Older and mainly white groups tend to think this is not usually used in an abusive way—e.g., let's go to the Chinky—which is not seen as offensive; younger groups and those from ethnic minorities feel this could be as insulting as 'paki' or 'nigger'." 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. 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. ==See also== * Ching chong – another ethnic slur used against Chinese people * Madrassi – an ethnic slur used against people of South India 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chinky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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