Duke of Edinburgh Philip Quotes on Stereotype
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When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, 'If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed'.[1]
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'If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.' (1986)[1]
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In 1966 he remarked that 'British women can't cook.'[1]
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In 2002, he asked an Indigenous Australian businessman, 'Do you still throw spears at each other?'[4][1]
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Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, 'You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly.' (1993)[1]
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Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech Edinburgh factory, HRH remarked that it looked 'like it was put in by an Indian'.[5][6]
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'Aren't most of you descended from pirates?' (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)[1]
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Edinburgh: And what exotic part of the world do you come from? Lord Taylor: I'm from Birmingham. (1999)