How about this this, Outsider--how about we call Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals "Japs" again? It's a shortened version, easier, no big deal. The kids in school now wouldn't mean any disrespect by using the word, no? There are things in history that still hurt, and the reaction of "get over it" does not address how they hurt then and how the regurgitation of that ugliness still hurts and resonates today. I can tell you that word stings me and I wasn't alive for WWII. You may have not grown up understanding that there were people, fellow countrymen, who HATED your ancestors, who singled them out as "other" and treated them as less-than. You ignore the history and struggle that some Americans have fought and still fight to be considered equal.