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*smiles* If the British had been invaded; conquered and oppressed by an American empire and then when some of them moved to America they were given the worst jobs, spat at in the streets and seen as somehow diluting American racial heritage...then it probably would be insulting to call them limey :P
As it is its a little more like sibling rivalry. We often call the French 'frogs'. It's kind of racist but it's a different dynamic at play.
It's like the difference between your brother calling you a prick, and the bully at school calling you one.
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