Hello and welcome Chinese = Chinese It's colloquial English. ...just because it's colloquial English doesn't mean its not racist. Any form of slang used to describe a minority grouping can be construed as offensive, simply because it is usually used in a way that denigrates and diminishes the target group. This leads to a mindset whereby members of that group are always considered in a diminutive way that somehow justifies treating them as "not quite equals". And when people are "not quite equal", it is easy to justify treating them in a less-favourable fashion. And when we have established that is it OK to discriminate.........well we all know where that one ends up, don't we? That is what I would have liked to have typed