It just goes to show how much of a stigma there is around being...

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    It just goes to show how much of a stigma there is around being negroid. The term 'monkey' implies that Symonds is of lower intelligence and status than whites, like a black African or a monkey. So in that sense it is quite offensive. Symonds quite rightly does not want to be grouped with a lower status ethnicity.
 
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