Is Kraut and Jerry a bad or offensive way to call Germans?

[Braznor]

Sorry if it offends you, but I have frequently noticed WW2 era Allied soldiers using those words referring to German soldiers.

Are they outdated now and are no longer used? I hardly see them anymore, except when it comes to WW2 movies, games etc.

Is calling a German person as a Kraut or Jerry offensive like the N word or is it merely impolite like using Oriental instead of Asian?

 

[leftyman]

I would think its outdated.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Braznor
Sorry if it offends you, but I have frequently noticed WW2 era Allied soldiers using those words referring to German soldiers.

Are they outdated now and are no longer used? I hardly see them anymore, except when it comes to WW2 movies, games etc.

Is calling a German person as a Kraut or Jerry offensive like the N word or is it merely impolite like using Oriental instead of Asian?

do you go around calling them that? do you want to? wtf would you want to?

 

[JulesMaximus]

What nationality are you?

 

[Schadenfroh]

I would not call them either one of those......

 

[Zolty]

I don't think it is as offensive as the N word, but I am sure you will make someone mad by calling them that.

 

[dug777]

jack's parents were german, iirc :|

 

[spaceman]

my roomate in school was german.
we called him a kraut.
we also fist fought.
he was sensitive and a tad reactionary.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: The Cornballer
my roomate in school was german.
we called him a kraut.
we also fist fought.
he was sensitive and a tad reactionary.

gee i wonder why?

 

[PlatinumGold]

i think if i were a german, i'd find Nazi to be more offensive than either Kraut or Jerry.

 

[Phokus]

I've never heard of "Jerry" as a discriminatory word before...

 

[meltdown75]

<COD:2>
JERRIES!!!!!!!
</COD:2>

 

[Feldenak]

We had a German exchange student live with us when I was a kid. My grandfather called him and his parents Krauts. My parents still keep in touch with him and his family in Germany.


I would think Kraut or Jerry is an outdated term. I also think it depends on context. To me it would be akin to people calling my family Limeys.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

European-Germanic is the correct term

 

[Braznor]

Company of Heros too used both these words frequently. That's why I asked.

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: The Cornballer
my roomate in school was german.
we called him a kraut.
we also fist fought.
he was sensitive and a tad reactionary.

gee i wonder why?

he was a mean drunk bastard.
he was ok sober but he would be hitting the jack daniels before 8am classes.
most of the time he was drunk and called the rest of us ethnic names..
he didnt really take offense to kraut, and vice versa.


all in all he was an ok guy..OFF the booze.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: Braznor
Sorry if it offends you, but I have frequently noticed WW2 era Allied soldiers using those words referring to German soldiers.

Are they outdated now and are no longer used? I hardly see them anymore, except when it comes to WW2 movies, games etc.

Is calling a German person as a Kraut or Jerry offensive like the N word or is it merely impolite like using Oriental instead of Asian?

Think about it in WW2 soldiers calling them krauts and jerry's is obviously used in a negative context, it's like calling american's yanks

 

[Amused]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%28WWII%29

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: Braznor
Sorry if it offends you, but I have frequently noticed WW2 era Allied soldiers using those words referring to German soldiers.

Are they outdated now and are no longer used? I hardly see them anymore, except when it comes to WW2 movies, games etc.

Is calling a German person as a Kraut or Jerry offensive like the N word or is it merely impolite like using Oriental instead of Asian?

Think about it in WW2 soldiers calling them krauts and jerry's is obviously used in a negative context, it's like calling american's yanks

Underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Amused
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%28WWII%29

LOL... the way they bicker back and forth on the "discussion" page, you'd swear they were ATOTers

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I've always wondered what the discriminatory name for someone from the Russian/Ukraine area was, so that I can know if someone's trying to offend me.

- M4H

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I've always wondered what the discriminatory name for someone from the Russian/Ukraine area was, so that I can know if someone's trying to offend me.

- M4H

Ivan?

 

[Braznor]

Boris? Bolshevik?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

None of those really ring a bell, but then again I don't have the thick In Soviet Russia accent unless I choose to switch it on.

- M4H

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: Braznor
Sorry if it offends you, but I have frequently noticed WW2 era Allied soldiers using those words referring to German soldiers.

Are they outdated now and are no longer used? I hardly see them anymore, except when it comes to WW2 movies, games etc.

Is calling a German person as a Kraut or Jerry offensive like the N word or is it merely impolite like using Oriental instead of Asian?

Think about it in WW2 soldiers calling them krauts and jerry's is obviously used in a negative context, it's like calling american's yanks

Underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower.

I didn't realize yank was derogatory?