Kike

I was talking, or rather listening to the British kids complain about how their money was being depleted. Each one was given so much for the year, etc. "Well," ended the Scottish kid, Guy, "I have the 5000 pounds in the bank account, but I really don't want to touch it."

So, I added in, jokingly, "Well, of course, you're Scottish, and Jewish, what a combination."

I hope he knew I was joking, when he said, "Ha ha, back home, that would earn you a punch in the face." So, I apologized afterwards. He was very understanding about it, "I'm sure you've heard more than your share of American jokes," which was true.

"People back home make fun of your Scottishness? In Scotland?"

"No, but when I go into England, I always here about it. In Glasgow, I've gotten used to people making fun of my Judaism. The first time somebody walked over to me and sneezed out 'A Jew,' I laughed, I thought it was funny. After a while you get used to everybody doing it, and it really doesn't faze you."

"Well, yeah, I have to put up with Holocaust jokes." I paused, then added, "plus, my name is Mike, I live in a Hicktown, and I'm Jewish. You can guess what they call me."

"Uh, what?"

"Mike...kike...?"

"Kike, what is that an offensive term for Jews?"

"You've never heard that word before?!?!" I asked some other Brits.

"Yeah, 'kick me, Kike me,' it's in Michael Jackson's 'They Don't Really Care About Us.'" Well, yes. "It means black people."

"Uhm, no, it's a very derogatory word for Jews." I explained it to them. "See, when people who couldn't write were asked to sign their names, they were just told to make an 'X.' Jews assumed that this was a cross, so they wouldn't, and instead, they made an 'O.' In German, a circle is 'kikel.' (sp?) Kikel - kike. You've really never heard of it before?" Not a single Brit had. "I wonder what that means?"

"The bigots in America are more multilingual?"

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