It is interesting how words can carry different meanings to people. Like in the US, it is not uncommon for little kids to shout "banzai!" When jumping into a pool or lake or something. Japanese people do use it as a cheer, but using it like that can be, well onjectionable? Most Americans don't even know, but many hundreds of Japanese including mothers holding their infants jumped from the Banzai cliffs at the invasion of Saipan.
Conversely, in Japan, the slang term for a Polaroid camera is bakachon kamera. Many people use it without knowing the meaning is somewhat disparaging to people of Korean ancestry (literally means a camera that even an idiot or chonseijin (Korean) can use).
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