Ever received calls from overseas financial companies? They call up and asks about everything, your name, boss name, company strength, right down to the intimate deails of whether my right butt cheek is bigger than my left butt cheek... Sorry, i haven't got boobs.
And worst of all, they speak in their [censored seeing how people are getting jumpy with recent incidents; see cowboy caleb's post's comments by E@L, even say "ang moh" have to go to jail] funny accent. And when moi tell the guy "i can't hear what you're is saying", that @#$%! guy actually had the audacity to try and correct me and say, "Yes, you CAN hear what i am saying.".
Hellooooo? If you wanna do business in another country, learn that country's language ok. And in Nogum City, multi-syllable speech demands a very high level of eloquence. We don't say things like, "I'm sorry, i can't understand what you're saying because of your accent, could try repeating while doing away with the accent?". Instead, we just say "Huh?"
A little about the word angmo. Why use angmo instead of another word? Frankly, i have absolutely no idea what the equivalent of angmo is in english. We could say westerners instead of angmo. But if you read 三字經, you'll find the following: 曰南北 曰西東 此四方 應乎中
So you see, west or east, left or right, depends largely on where you take your center of reference. Westerners could well be Easterners. And you can't say Europeans or Americans, coz angmo not only includes both but also the Australians.
I think it just a tad bit of extreme to call people who uses the grouping word "angmo" as racist and put them in jail.
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