Reading the above, the only conclusion I've managed to reach is that anyone
offended by any name must have a severe inferiority complex.
Others seem to imply "Complex be damned"!!
As a long serving member of the RWAFF
[Royal West African Frontier Force] on the Gold Coast,[now Ghana] I
accumulated numerous derogatory names, many quite true, but none that could
possibly have annoyed or offended me in any way. I cannot even think of any
term I would find offensive, true or not!!
Calling me an 'organic gardener' might imply some degree of unmerited
ignorance however.
Best Wishes
"Zemedelec" wrote in message
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Thanks Janet. Actually I thought the kaffirs were the native-born whites,
like
Afrikaaners. The Middle East and Central/Eastern Europe are more my
territory
for unusual ethnic names (Quick: where can you find a Rusyn? Not a
Russian, a
Rusyn.
zemedelec