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Originally Posted by BetteDavisEyes
I'm still trying to figure out if she was refering to JAPS (Jewish American Princess) or "japs" as in a deragatory remark towards the Japanese.
Either way, it's insulting as hell.
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That's what I immediately thought too, but then again I was taught that it was a bad word when I was growing up. It was more widely used in the Continental US and not so much here, where the Japanese made up the majority of Hawaii's population for a long time.