tallowood wrote on Apr 16^th, 2009 at 9:50pm:


Yes, misunderstood metaphors... BTW is there a "V" in Malay languages?

It is a fair enough question, and I can only guess at why, but I think it may be something to do with not having hundreds of years of negative connotation attached to it, which dredges up racial memories of being dehumanised on a massive scale.

I think it was a made up term from the sixties or seventies, when "black pride" was emerging alongside the civil rights movement.

I just googled it, and it seems to either have been a word originally used  by other white americans as a derogatory term for polish, bohemian, and hungarian migrants, which originally was hunky, as an abbreviation of bohunk.
Black workers started to use the word to describe all caucasions, and it evolved into honky.

Another theory is that it derives from a word, "honq", which means red, or pink, in some african languages, and was used by them to describe white men.

I have never had anyone call me a honky, but I am fairly certain that few black people would not have had disparaging language used to their faces, and therefore most decent people try to not use such language.

If any one calls you a honky on the forum, aussie nationalist, please let me know if you are offended by it, and I will ask them not to.

tallowood wrote on Apr 16^th, 2009 at 11:37am:

They're english, I'm sure they're use to their food tasting like crap anyway.