Quote Originally Posted by Backwards Observer View Post
I've sometimes wondered why JMA keeps referring to "gooks" in Rhodesia. The comments in the linked forum thread are instructive on this account.

GOOKS - CHARLIE'S - Whatever you want to call the bastards! - New Rhodesian Forum
'Gook' was a great name which we adopted from the yanks (from Vietnam). It was good in that it replaced the tendency of earlier times to use the 'N' or 'K' words which given that the majority of men under arms on the government side Rhodesia were Black was inappropriate. While 'gook' may have had racial connotations in Vietnam it was a neutral word in Rhodesia.