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Originally Posted by Barmaley
I think тату brings up a good point:
you should really, really avoid the N-word (N*gger, where *=i); I belive the rough translation used in Russian would be Негр and doesn't really carry such a stigma.
It's because Russia is racist. :P
It's like, the N word in the US and Britain used to be OK, when it was OK to be racist, before Martin Luther King, and such.
I heard a white person say it t'other day, and it wasn't even jokingly, but fortunately not directed at anyone. It made me cringe.