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"rice" - Racist or not

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"Rice" Racist or just unfortunate social acceptance of the term

5.3K views 20 replies 11 participants last post by  2LiterRiceEater  
#1 ·
Some of you know that I dislike the term "rice". It has dated roots from gear heads that hated imports. Root being rice burner. It is offense in nature and was used as such. What are your opinions. and if you agree, help me pick a word to use that could take it's place
 
#5 ·
Being Japanese and white I always call people with tastelessly modded cars ricers.

I also believe it depends on how it is used. Like "oh he has asian in him, he has to be a ricer" is purely racist. How I use it is "that ricer has an upside down airplane wing on the back of their car", or "that guy has no respect for anyone else and he is a pure ricer at heart".
 
#13 ·
I also believe it depends on how it is used. Like "oh he has asian in him, he has to be a ricer" is purely racist. How I use it is "that ricer has an upside down airplane wing on the back of their car", or "that guy has no respect for anyone else and he is a pure ricer at heart".
Yeah, what this guy said.



 
#7 ·
See, I always saw it as the ricer/racer divide. Like a ricer has mods that were initially designed for speed that are used for looks, and a racer has mods designed for speed that are used for speed.
 
#10 ·
It's roots date to Japanese import bashing. Nobody in the 90s was calling VW drivers "ricers." Anything from Japan (nobody really had Korean cars in the 1990s) was a "rice burner."
 
#12 · (Edited)
I think the word has evolved. Example. Back in the day, it was used towards a Japanese car, and/or the owner.

Now, it can be used for most cars. I've seen many riced out domestics or Euro cars. I think the word went more from a slang term for an origin of a car, to a term used to describe any car. Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements.

The word also gets misused by all the hillbilly and ********. If it doesn't have a pushrod boat anchor V6 or V8, it's rice. My DSM ges called rice, despite being virtually stock inside and out, and it's built in Illinois. The Hyundai, nobody really calls it rice. They just insist how unreliable it is. 181,000 original miles doesn't seem very unreliable to me. :confused:

The word doesn't bother me though. I drive the cars I drive because I like them. I can respect anything that was built well, no matter of the origin or the number of wheels or cylinders.
 
#16 ·
2LiterRiceEater said:
I think the word has evolved. Example. Back in the day, it was used towards a Japanese car, and/or the owner.

Now, it can be used for most cars. I've seen many riced out domestics or Euro cars. I think the word went more from a slang term for an origin of a car, to a term used to describe any car. Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements.

The word also gets misused by all the hillbilly and ********. If it doesn't have a pushrod boat anchor V6 or V8, it's rice. My DSM ges called rice, despite being virtually stock inside and out, and it's built in Illinois. The Hyundai, nobody really calls it rice. They just insist how unreliable it is. 181,000 original miles doesn't seem very unreliable to me.

The word doesn't bother me though. I drive the cars I drive because I like them. I can respect anything that was built well, no matter of the origin or the number of wheels or cylinders.
^^^ he definitely hit the nail on the head.
 
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I'm very familiar with how the pushrod engine works. I've been around them for years.

Pushrod boat anchor? I know quite a few bone stock "pushrod boat anchors" that would kick the crap out of your POS-ricemobile.
Edit: I'm not even gonna bother with your butthurt *** :)