- Aug 14, 2019
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Yes. I was in the Australian navy. We had a lot of different nationalities. Some people would have gone to jail for the nicknames they dreamed up if they did it now. We had an Islander in the crew, definitely black. He came up on deck and looked at the sailors sun-baking. He said, "You whities come up for a tan. I come up for a bleach!"It used to be that we could laugh at ourselves and others without it being the end of the world. People would make fun of other ethnic groups and their idiosyncrasies while also laughing at their own, whether pointed put by themselves or others.
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