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Do they do that in the UK? I didn't think they were quite so gung-ho about their military.
I didn't know people still used that racist phrase.
I didn't know gung ho was a racist term and now I look it up I see that it is clearly not.
I'm not sure who your authority is that determines the offense of words, but I have friends from China that take great offense to the term.