The world has just plummeted into moral decay because someone (a single person) finds the term 'chinaman' offensive .... although nobody really knows why. How can we possibly live in a world that calls a cricket delivery a 'chinaman'? How can life go on?
Maybe if I see thousands of Chinese people marching in demonstration over the issue, I'll consider it, but I'm not going to take any notice of one person trying to get others to notice him.
The initial terminology was not racist. Back in the 1930s, Test cricket was played by Australia, England and the West Indies. The player concerned was of Chinese descent and it was unusual to see a Chinese person playing cricket at any level, let alone Test matches.
He was also bowling a very unusual style not seen before in Test cricket. The term "Imagine being dismissed by a Chinaman" was quite probably used in the context of how unlikely it would have been to be facing a Chinese bowler at all. As the bowling style was unusual, and there was only one Chinese bowler bowling it at the time, the term just stuck. All very innocent, and people back then hadn't heard of political correctness. What bliss.
There's a style of swimming named the "Australian Crawl". It came about because of an unusual style of swimming stroke introduced by Australian swimmers. Nobody cares, nobody is offended by it, and I fail to see the difference.
Hardly anything to get you knickers in a knot over, really. I bowled that style myself and always happy for it to be called 'chinaman'. Never saw a problem, still don't. I will continue to use the term because I've used it for many years, cannot see anything derogatory in it's usage, and I will not be told what to do, say, and how to think by minorities seeking their 15 minutes of fame.
And here's news to you "holier than thou" do-gooders. Everyone is racist. I am, and you are. We all have pre-conceived ideas of what people from particular races are likely to do. You see, we are of differing cultures and see things differently. No two people, even if from the same race, are going to see things the same way 100% of the time.
There's nothing wrong with these feelings, where it becomes a problem is if we act upon irrational fears. I hardly see how labelling a particular style of bowling will be the fore-runner to World War III. My best friend just so happens to be a Vietnamese girl. We met at work and have developed a friendship over the years based on our senses of humour. We accept we don't think alike in many areas, have differing cultures, but we get on like a house on fire because we don't take each other too seriously. And that's what it's all about.
This is my final comment on the issue because I have a life and far greater issues to address than this.
Maybe if I see thousands of Chinese people marching in demonstration over the issue, I'll consider it, but I'm not going to take any notice of one person trying to get others to notice him.
The initial terminology was not racist. Back in the 1930s, Test cricket was played by Australia, England and the West Indies. The player concerned was of Chinese descent and it was unusual to see a Chinese person playing cricket at any level, let alone Test matches.
He was also bowling a very unusual style not seen before in Test cricket. The term "Imagine being dismissed by a Chinaman" was quite probably used in the context of how unlikely it would have been to be facing a Chinese bowler at all. As the bowling style was unusual, and there was only one Chinese bowler bowling it at the time, the term just stuck. All very innocent, and people back then hadn't heard of political correctness. What bliss.
There's a style of swimming named the "Australian Crawl". It came about because of an unusual style of swimming stroke introduced by Australian swimmers. Nobody cares, nobody is offended by it, and I fail to see the difference.
Hardly anything to get you knickers in a knot over, really. I bowled that style myself and always happy for it to be called 'chinaman'. Never saw a problem, still don't. I will continue to use the term because I've used it for many years, cannot see anything derogatory in it's usage, and I will not be told what to do, say, and how to think by minorities seeking their 15 minutes of fame.
And here's news to you "holier than thou" do-gooders. Everyone is racist. I am, and you are. We all have pre-conceived ideas of what people from particular races are likely to do. You see, we are of differing cultures and see things differently. No two people, even if from the same race, are going to see things the same way 100% of the time.
There's nothing wrong with these feelings, where it becomes a problem is if we act upon irrational fears. I hardly see how labelling a particular style of bowling will be the fore-runner to World War III. My best friend just so happens to be a Vietnamese girl. We met at work and have developed a friendship over the years based on our senses of humour. We accept we don't think alike in many areas, have differing cultures, but we get on like a house on fire because we don't take each other too seriously. And that's what it's all about.
This is my final comment on the issue because I have a life and far greater issues to address than this.
