Is the word jap offensive i'm curious, is the word jap offensive? If so, when did it become offensive? I ask this question because of my question about the word zhina (æ¯é‚£ï¼‰ i‘m a chinese, and i know …

The entire history of the word jap as a slur, is strongly tied to the us (and possibly, to a much smaller extent, to some part of the british colonies in asia), where people of japanese descent were being …