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[Wilson Gray]

I found "The Chink Files" more interesting. Amongst the colored, a person
whose physiognomy strikes people as being "Asia-atic" may be given "Chink"
as a nickname. A high-school friend of such mien was nicknamed "Chop-Chop,"
after the Chinese character who provided the comic relief for the
Blackhawks. (For those too young to remember The War, except for Chop-Chop,
the 'Hawks were whites of various national origins and all were
stereotypes, with the exception of their American leader, Blackhawk
himself.)

Back in the day, St. Louis's Chinatown, now buried under Busch Stadium's
parking lot, was called "Hop Alley," after the name of its "main street."
Denver's former Chinatown was also called "Hop Alley."

"Denver's Chinatown earned the moniker 'Hop Alley' because it was seen as a
place where one could have an 'exotic experience,' says Bill Convery, the
state historian for History Colorado."

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_18011216

Somehow, that "explanation" reads like something from the UD.

A white friend once apologized to me for unthinkingly referring to Chinese
cuisine as "chink food." Bizarre. I'm not Chinese or even "Asia-atic."

Besides, *we* call it "chink food," too.

Youneverknow.



On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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