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[quote=BBQQ,505685]According to STUART Berg Flexner, the editor of Random House, Chinese was once a derogatory term used by the British soldiers during the Second World War. Chinese refers to “disorganization, noise and confusion”. A Chinese attack is a noisy, badly executed attack. A Chinese landing is a plane crash.

Chinese restaurant syndrome is another term, which was popular in the USA in the 1960s. The Americans are very sensitive to MSG. Once they consume MSG in the Chinese restaurants, they feel dizzy, sweaty and even breathless. This symptom is described as Chinese restaurant syndrome. Later, FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) of the USA points out that Chinese restaurant syndrome is pejorative and inaccurate. It should be revised as “MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) Symptom Complex”.

In fact, China was once a derogatory term too. Do you know the idiom “not a Chinaman’s chance”? It refers to “slight chance”. Chinaman refers to a Chinese or a person of Chinese descent, usually an offensive term. 
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