THE PEJORATIVE SYMBOL FOR "JEW" IN MANDARIN

YOU'D THINK THEY'D HAVE MORE RESPECT FOR US IN LIGHT OF ALL THE CHINESE FOOD WE EAT.

Writing 'Jew' in Mandarin
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 28 (JTA) — The Chinese language comprises thousands of characters and combinations of characters, each composed of various strokes. Now a human rights group in Taiwan is calling on Chinese journalists and academics around the world to stop the “discriminatory” way that the characters for “Jewish people” are written in Mandarin.

“There are many Chinese characters for ‘you-tai,’ or Jew, but the combination that is currently being used refers to an animal of the monkey species and has the connotation of parsimoniousness,” Chien Hsi-chieh, the director of the Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan, said recently.
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