No, I don't think there's anything insulting about the term. Westerners and Asians have very different views when it comes to these kinds of things. We've basically become scared to label people with words because of political correctness. I've head the "N" word used here quite often to describe somebody whose been out in the sun too long. Try and tell them its racist to say that and you just get a blank look. "But N****** are black", they say
