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darksiege
PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:34 pm 
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Racism debate after Russian and Nigerian gas companies combine to form 'Nigaz'
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:19 AM on 2nd July 2009

When a $2.5billion international venture is being planned you might expect there to be hours of debate over what to call it.

Yet branding is not the forte of some companies, it seems.

Russian Energy giant Gazprom has inadvertently walked into a racism row with the announcement of its joint venture in Nigeria - Nigaz.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Nigerian counterpart Umaru Yar'Adua last week agreed the deal to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Africa's most populous nation.

The name is meant to be an amalgamation of 'Nigeria' and 'Gazprom', pronounced 'nye-gaz', but it can be read phonetically as an offensive term for those of black African origin.
'How more derogatory can it be. Let's join forces in making our government rename this,' said the creator of 'Nigerians No Nigaz', a group on Facebook.

Many comments on the blunder were from white bloggers.

But others mocked the mistake - one African-American suggested a playlist of songs from U.S. hip-hop artists for the Nigaz launch party.

One Nigerian in Lagos said: 'White people are making too much of this.
'As long as the Russians pay us, they can call it what they like.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... z0lQHmntGF

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But, but......it's got the combination of N, I, and G in it!!!1! It MUST be a racial slur! :P

People are stupid ****...
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I find it funny that no one even though naming it that could cause issues somehow.

That would be like an Irish person making a restaurant that only sold Irish cuisines; but deep fried all of them all called it "The Greasy Mick"*.

*I am so going to see if a friend of mine and I can run with that idea....

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In other words, people from the U.K. and U.S. are concerned about inadvertant racial slurs between 2 other countries, one of which doesn't even speak English.

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Pretty much.

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At least they didn't call for freshly ground black people
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Nigaz please.

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And one of which is made of..... the ethnicity that we worry will be offended!

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Ladas wrote:
At least they didn't call for freshly ground black people


Oh my goodness that was so out of left field I totally lol'ed!!! :lol:

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