[QUOTE]Originally posted by VIOLATION
[B]When Harley Davidson got off their buts and realised that they couldn't compete with the Japanese bike manufacturers they overhauled their production (JIT) and marketing (went niche) and produced a bike called "Fat Boy". The name is derived from Little Boy (the A bomb dropped on Hiroshima) and Fat Man (the one dropped on Nagasaki). Also the colour scheme was silver with orange stripes. This is the same colour as Enola Gay, the plane that dropped Little Boy. Surprised they didn't call it Fat Gay

If what you say is true I think this fairly conclusively proves that the origin of the term "rice" as used to describe hotted up cars is rascist as can be.

My problem with the term rice is not it's origin, but it's use. Suppose someone puts up a picture of a spoiler and the very next response is "that's rice". What does that really add to the discussion? Bugger all. If you can't say something constructive why bother. Telling someone there taste is wrong just shows off your insecurities.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by huyto
[B]I can understand where the term "rice" is not meant to harm anyone, but you would call someone a rice-boy because his car is fixed up like someone who is stereotyped to do that, namely asian guys.

 

It's not racism if the person saying it doesn't believe in it. Everyone is just too oversensitive. All this PC crap is just about making the oversensitive people feel comfortable. It's more about how you treat people than what you say. Racist jokes are some of the funniest i've ever heard. Even those about my own race. It's all about having a sense of humor.

 

Remember those 'An Aussie, an Englishman and an American went into a pub' jokes? You don't hear them anymore due I suspect in part to political correctness.

 

I'm gonna go for the flame bait, but how many here are actually Asian and don't consider rice deragatory when used by OTHER ethnicities? Hell, if some punk ass redneck came up to me, looked at my Stock S2K and said "what a rice car", what do you think I would do? Not take offense? C'mon, I am a home grown CA boy FOB (another deragatory remark that can be used within the culture but not outside), that grew up also on the import car scene. This term was original used stem from "pocket rockets", but with the influx of great affordable and fun cars from Japan (SE-R, Z, etc.), it soon came to be known as "Rice Rockets". ANd it's pretty pitiful, since it seems to stem from more jealousy and envy than anything else. IT's even more ridiculous today when anything, I mean anything that a person does to try to soup up their ride to show their character (with wings, exhaust, rims, or whatever) is associated with Rice, instead of the customary, "whack", "played out", or "crap". Rice has such a negative connotation that it goes beyond just merely stating of the mere aesthetical aspects itself...meaning that the car looks like crap because it was made out of the intention of a FOB or so.

I guess the worst part of this is that even with very high powered respectable vehicles, such as the SUpra TT, some people still considered it "Rice" when you lower it, have the stock factory huge wing (which is actually functional), a gaping exhaust the size of a watermelon (a necessary evil when dealing with forced induction). That basically tells me that people nowadays don't even understand it's "implied meaning" of being "Whack", and now are associating a lifestyle, behavior, and culture instead.

Peace Out

<Vent off>
<Flame coat on>

 

Im my opinion, no one should ever again use any term slightly descriptive or stereotypical to describe an item or idea they are trying to get across. I hereby motion that Cthree immediatly install a word generator that would randomly pick a grouping of letters and combine them to generate a new word to describe anything that could ever possibly be associated with any particular race, sex, sexual orientation, political ideology, education level, skin color, food preferrence, height, weight, age, ethnic background, professional occupation, religious affiliation or other of the many "lables" people now a days find so easy to affix a "woe is me" slant to.
Please LIGHTEN UP!!!!! there is always someone who by today's PC standards will be rightfully able to feel offended by whatever it is you chose to say, regardless of how carefully you chose your words.
STOP BEING SO DAMNED SENSITIVE!!!!!!

 

What's FOB (seriously, never heard it, and interested)?

I think words that are Ok intra-racially, but not OK inter-racially are just plain dangerous. The word 'nigger' is derived from the word 'negro' which comes from the latin for black. All this etymology aside, as it was originally used in a derogatory manner in such a barbaric situation (slavery) it is clearly offensive.

But its use being OK by some and not by others is just another form of racial segregation and only results in the sort of division that it stemmed from in the first place.

 

Hey Huyto! Some people think 'rice' is politically incorrect. Some people ALSO think street racing is not only politically incorrect, but dangerous. Go figure... I'm sick and tired of this BS that is happening here and in other forums. BTW, this is the first thread I've ever locked.