Is prince Philip racist ? i don't believe this.?

[Jinx]

I was talking to a friend saying how i like prince philips humour and how sound he is for his age, but they said he was racist, what did he say that was racist ?

[Marco]

hes greek racist not british racist

[DeeleyM]

Of course he is! He's one of the most 'ist' people I've ever heard of! It's a combination of him being of a much older generation (racism, sexism etc was the norm, back in their day) and being an eccentric 'royal' with a bent sense of humour. I love it!! Only HE could get away with it!!

[Moho]

He said a lot of things, most are harmless. But they could offend people in other countries

President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”

To a tourist in Budapest in 1993: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”

To a British trekker in Papa New Guinea, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”

In Canada in 1976: “We don’t come here for our health.”

The most famous one, to a British student in China, 1986: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll go home with slanted eyes.”

To deaf children by steel band, 2000 “Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.”

Using Hitler’s title to address German chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1997, he called him: “Reichskanzler.”

To Cayman Islanders: “Aren't most of you descended from pirates?”

On Ethiopian art, 1965: “It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons

To a children’s band in Australia in 2002: “You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”

[Olly]

Prince Philip has 100.1% reasons why he can't afford to be racist.

[Some Guy]

haha very thats why british comedians always take the piss outta him

[AdamKadmon]

During the celebration of the Queen's 80th birthday, he's known to have farted, cracking up everyone around. Videos of it are on the Web. HE thinks he's hilarious.

1. China State Visit, 1986 (to a foreign student)
If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.

2. To a blind women with a guide dog
“Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?”

3. To an Aborigine in Australia
“Do you still throw spears at each other?”

4. To his wife, the Queen, after her coronation
“Where did you get the hat?”

5. When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union
“The bastards murdered half my family”

6. To a Briton in Budapest
“You can’t have been here that long – you haven’t got a pot belly.”

7. To a driving instructor in Scotland
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”

8. After the Dunblane shooting
“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?”

9. To a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea
“You managed not to get eaten, then?”

10. To Elton John after hearing Elton had sold his Gold Aston Martin
“Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car – we often see it when driving to Windsor Castle.”

11. On the London Traffic Debate
“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop tourism, we could stop the congestion.”

12. To the President of Nigeria, dressed in traditional robes
“You look like you’re ready for bed!”

13. Unknown
“If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it’s either a new woman or a new car!”

14. On key problems facing Brazil
“Brazilians live there”

15. To the matron of a hospital in the Caribbean
“You have mosquitos. I have the Press”

[lili]

Prince Philip is 90, and he grew up in an era in which a lot of people (particularly including many of his class) were rather routinely xenophobic and had less than pleasant feelings about those who were different from them. Many people of his age are not likely to feel very positively towards Asians, for example, because of their memories of the Japanese during World War II, among other things. And political correctness is a fairly recent social development; it was not part of Philip's youth or even middle age.

So, I'd have to say that there is probably some inbred racism in Philip's general outlook. Some of the comments he's made suggest it. Even though they can be put down to the kind of thing a lot of elderly British (or American or French) men might have said over the years, their origin is in some racist attitudes of the past.

[Dave Harrison]

He is 90 and like me is not always correct.We dont mean harm to anyone its just the way we speak and think since birth and our parents were the same.

[Baggy Sawls]

Prince Phillip is hilarious.