Britons banned from calling Americans 'Yanks' in 'racial harassment' court ruling

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Britons banned from calling Americans 'Yanks' in 'racial harassment' court ruling

More than five million Britons have been banned from referring to Americans as "Yanks" after a Scottish court ruled the term mounts to racial harassment. The ruling comes following a dispute between American Pizza Express worker Raymond Joseph and his colleague Michael Tortolano at a branch of the restaurant in Aberdeen. Mr Joseph claimed his co-worker had shouted at him during a shift: “Go back to your country, …