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Used to insult African American people who act "white" or have partial white ancestry. Similar to Twinkie referring to Asians "acting white." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.192.80.129 ( talk) 20:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC).
Usually used to be offensive against people from the Appalachian area, particularly people from Kentucky. I know you suggested not using ones from particular states, but this one is considered really offensive (I'm from Kentucky, I know), and people use it without realizing. Also, Redneck is oftentimes considered offensive by people from the south.
As in "ginger kids", pale white people with freckles and red hair. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mwalle ( talk • contribs) 05:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC).
I merged these entries (deleting Rosbeef and expanding on Rosbif) basically because it's redundant having both there when one will serve, and also because the explanation for "Rosbeef" was largely incorrect. It's not a large edit, but because this is such a controversial page I thought it needed adding here.-- Capreolus 11:25, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
I added an entry on a well known Alaskan native term for white man. There aren't too many sources on line, but I found one discussion of it. In regard to the self-application, I know of one St. Mary's flying service in the bush that calls its holding company "Gussic Ventures" in this spirit. My sense is Gussic has lost some of its edge over the decades but it is still a negative term. It is certainly much more negative than "cheechako" is currently, and both liguistically and geographically distinct. The author of my source suggests the term is rooted in "Cossack" and I've heard this as well, but I don't know that anyone has confirmed it. It is in common use in English among locals in SW and SC Alaska. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cosmoline ( talk • contribs) 20:27, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
That's what we (U.S. Army lower enlisted soldiers) often called the locals and enemies while in Afghanistan and Iraq; we realized that "Hadji" could be used both in a derogatory and at times (if a Muslim male had made the Hadj to Mecca) in a proper and respectful manner depending on the situation, circumstance, tone, intent, context, etc (for example, we called our translator, who apparently made the trip to Mecca "Hadji- man" and we held him in very high regard as he saved our butts numerous times! But then we would turn and say something like "that f'n hadjee is firing at me, get some m'er f'er"! BANG! BANG! BANG! Hadji-man knew the difference and understood with no offense or apparent problem- actually- I think we started calling them Had-gees after hearing him.). Anyway, "hadjee" is apparently a modern "politically correct" battlefield term that can skate the razor thin line of political correctness since the Army no longer lets soldiers use condescending terms for the enemy and local people anymore (like "gook" in the Vietnam War, "kraut" and "nip" in WW2, etc). The soldier on the battlefield certainly does know the meaning of "Had-gee" and Hadji, the difference between the two, and is quite capable to get around all the PC crap and still use our little slurs when he or she wants (I guess it is an example of political correctness run amuck in WAR -they can shoot at us and we can shoot them but we can't call them names like "dune-billy" and "sand-nigger" because, and understandably particularly in regard to the n-word in the sand-nigger slur, are way out-of-bounds in our PC military, go figure.). Anyway, sorry for the long editorial but I thought it might help give some history and perspective to whoever might do the potential entry into the main article here. And, just for the record, I do love and respect the good and beautiful Afghani and Iraqi people, it was just the a-holes that were trying to kill me, my buddies, and innocent people (and oh, by the way, you too -remeber 9/11?) that I have a "predjudice" against. HUAH!
Should state the origin, that being that negros have hair that looks like brown moss.
This term is used for people from South of Italy of semitic anchestry, non white italian.
(U.S.) someone of Filipino or Vietnamese descent. 'Dog Eater' also used against the Lakota for their practice of 'white dog feasts' (the white dog believed to be sacred) by whites, neighboring tribes, and even other Sioux tribes from the Dakota dialect who did not share this tradition/ritual. Generally considered quite offensive by the Lakota.
that's the name of the Americans (USA citizens) in Poland (sometimes)
I remember this used for the people escaping Viet Nam, etc. after it became communist. It was used with sympathy for them, not a slur. Has this changed? Steve Dufour 06:06, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I searched zhid and this article came out. However, where is the meaning of the word? In Russian language it's a derigatory term for Jews. Can someone add it please? I'm a new user and cannot edit this article.-- Glushak 10:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
add porch monkey for those of you that havent heard this word or seen Clerks 2 it means a lazy black person, althought the point of its appearance in the movie is to change it from a racial slur to a word to describe any lazy person - Avenged Evanfold 05:00, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be an entry for this term. E Batterschoom 12:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Check out its own outstanding article. However I still don't think it is an ethnic slur. Steve Dufour 17:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
I restored gweilo. I assume it was deleted because it is a Cantonese word. But English-speakers in Hong Kong use it. Of course, when an English-speaker uses it, it is not intended as a slur. It's the equivalent of gaijin for Japan and gringo for Mexico, i.e. they are words used by English-speakers who understand them to be slurs in another language. Both of those words remain on the list. (Actually, I think gaijin should be removed since it is standard Japanese and not normally a slur.) Kauffner 15:51, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not exactly sure of the true meaning or history of the word. I guess it is just slang over here in Philadelphia. I was told by a person from Latin America that he used the word "gringo" in protests against US military personnel in Latin America during times of governmental upheaval. He said that the US military wore green, so the Spanish-speaking protestors would yell "Green Go!" to make their protestations understood. He said that because of this the troops became known as gringos, and the term came to include any person from the US, especially pushy people.
entry lists it as "negro slang". Is that an oversight, or is some logic to using negro instead of black or African American? If there is a reason, it might be worth putting that in the list, since my first reaction was to change it to black. Natalie 03:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Leck misch in d´r Täsch! Ich bin zwar kein Jüdisch-Experte, aber das scheint mir eine deutscher Ausdruck zu sein !-- 134.155.36.20 12:25, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Is this the right article to list this term? For those of you who don't know, in the USA, Europe and Russia, the term "Armenian Shower", refers to an Armenian who had not bathed or showered, yet uses an excessive amount of perfume or other sented product to try to mask their body odor. The end result being an overpowering combination of offensive sents. Usage, "Smells like s/he just took an Armenian Shower." "He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian." - Woody Allen from Love and Death In Armenian culture it is considered unhealthy to bathe more than once a week. -- Softy Papa 03:22, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Try searching on Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc. it's out there, or visit Glendale, CA. It's used 100s of times a day there.-- Softy Papa 19:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Derogatory term for any Asian but especially a person of Vietnamese nationality. I have never really understood what it meant but Google tells me it that it supposedly has to do with the way their heads would 'open up' when shot with a high-powered rifle; originally used by American soldiers during the Vietnam conflict. It doesn't seem to be as widespread as I had thought.
I was just wondering why a word so familiar as "wop" has a citation needed-tag. What is the citation supposed to support? That such a word exists and that it has the meaning described? But this is well-known. My Oxford English Reference dictionary lists it as, I believe, do most good dictionaries. Its etymology is given at www.etymonline.com. What remains in doubt? garik 18:49, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
an annoying missconseption for the jewish religion. Needs citation to be added. Also, while I could understand, for example, 'Heeb,' Hebrew proper is the language of Judaism. Now, no one calls Indians 'Dravidians' based on language family, but still, I would disagree that Hebrew is offensive. It could also be noted that Judaism is defined as an ethnic religon, and, thus, the language attached to it, even if it is used with other small branches (I doubt there are any) of the religon could be argued as an appropriate name. One last comment, there are MANY other examples of linguistic names being attached to ethnic groups based on the name of the language. Ever used the term 'semitic'? That is not a specific language, actually a language family, but it gets the idea across. TaylorSAllen 03:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Is "Welsher" actually an ethnic slur against the Welsh, in the sense of "to welsh on a bet"? The supposed explanation ("offensive because it implies that is characteristic of the Welsh people") is unreferenced. The entry cites Dictionary.com, but no origin for the term is given there. Is it actually one of those coincidental expressions, like "niggardly", which sounds as though it should be offensive but really isn't? AdorableRuffian 23:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
A person from the Indian Ocean region, originating in 2004 after an earthquake caused a tsunami that killed over 250,000 people.
This article became *HUGE* (192Kb) and requires cleanup and posible split. For starters, I removed foreign-language ethnic slurs. If some of them have noticeable English usage, they may be put into a separate article. `' mikka (t) 18:35, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
What is the reason for this tag? Looking over the list it seems like much of the world is covered. Of course most of the words are only used in a limited area, and of course only the English language is covered. Should I go ahead and remove it? Steve Dufour 18:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
...if the only people who could add a slur were members of the slurred group and had really had it said to them. Too bad that is not possible. Just a thought. Steve Dufour 04:46, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
It's not that it's about slurs. Anything is worth learning about, even derogatory terms. However, can we monitor it so that people don't simply add a newly invented epithet or an arcane term or some endemic word only used in one region. There is no way to monitor this. It's just ridiculous that I can make up anything I want and put it in here and no one can check that for authenticity. This article unfortunately shows where Wikipedia fails as an encyclopedia. Or maybe it doesn't...this article is more about defining word then giving the origin or common uses of the words; therefore it doesn't belong in an encylopedia but in a dictionary. Arthurian Legend 14:14, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
This text is a placeholder for some very long-winded trolling and name-calling that was severely cluttering the talk page. I don't believe anything productive took place in the entire exchange, but I didn't want to go so far as to delete the section.
If you want to see what I took out, it's right here. If we can all agree I'm not depriving us of any opportunity for conversation by redacting it, then this entire section (yes, this text right here) can just be deleted. My Alt Account 08:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
This 'list' serves no purpose other than to provide ammunition for those already holding racist views. Also, many of the terms related to Jews and African Americans are clearly fabricated by some racist individual(s) with too much time on their hands. Panda
if anyone wants to stop will beback or anyone else from splitting the article, click on history, then the date of the version u want. the old version will display, so click edit, then save. this is pretty pathetic. they're deleting both unsourced + foreign slurs, so i guess that means all the slurs. i guess they dont give a shit about the keep results of those debates. Ymg55 09:53, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps this should be sorted by the group the word refers to, so it is easier to find a word to use in a specific situation. It is much harder this way.
Consider reverting this page back to an earlier version that is much more complete. The edits over the last couple months have totally butchered the list. For a topic such as this, it is unreasonable to require a citation as a prerequisite for word to be included in the list. See the following page for the list before it was destroyed: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_ethnic_slurs&oldid=55958195
I've just completed a round of cleanup by moving quite a few entries into List of regional nicknames and List of religious slurs, which are clearly non-ethnic. It seems to me that now the list is fairly clean. I have two suggestions, though.
`' mikkanarxi 00:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Some people claim they are, some claim they are not, and this also has a repercussion on the entries that are added/removed from the articles. Sure, even in a country where e.g. the population is mostly Christian, the most devote people will probably be object of ridicule or of pictoresque portrayal, there will even be special terms for mocking them , but would those qualify as ethnic slurs? EpiVictor 08:34, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
So, is Janet Reno a racist towards Branch Davidians? Is Scientology now a race? I say disambiguate it to religious and ethnic slurs. Calling religions races is nothing more than a ploy by their members to become immune to criticism. Jews are a special case though. There is a distinct and pronounced Jewish race, where as there is no Scientologist race, no Muslim race, no Christian race. Lord Patrick 21:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
I removed this example from the list. If someone feels that it should be returned to the list, there should be an appropriate explanation for what the term means, instead of the non neutral comment that was written formerly. 68.191.41.61 07:21, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Peatbog Sergeant ( talk · contribs) reverted the article back to a version before our big cleanup. [6] Unfortunately I didn't notice it for a couple of days. [7] Peatbog is possibly a sock of a banned editor who's done this kind of thing before, so it may happen again. - Will Beback · † · 06:21, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I've just trashed the whole old List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity which was 100% unreferenced (actually moved it to List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity/old) and started importing verifiable content from here. Please spare a minute or two to help me here. `' mikkanarxi 03:21, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I would assume that what your colleagues refer to is not a racist slur in itself but a device of racism which attempts to create devision or isolation by drawing attention to differences. For example a group of Chinese workers in an American company might constantly be referred to as "those Asians" e.g. "Here's where the development team works, and here's Bruce our Asian developer". It's not that "asian" itself is a slur, it's not actually even being used as a slur as it does not imply anything about the person that isn't true (i.e. they are Asian... At least by the American definition) it's the practise of singling people out, or dividing groups along ethnic lines that is racist. The same could apply if there was a blind worker in the office, constantly referring to the person by their disability would not make the word "blind" a slur but would still be unacceptable. -- JamesTheNumberless 12:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Will Beback and I have agreed to set standards for exactly what slurs belong in this article. If there is a consensus for these standards, I will help enforce them by deleting entries that don't conform to those standards. If there is a consensus for a different set of standards, I will help enforce that too - I'm proposing these standards mainly so we have something definite to consider, not because I really want to debate their details. But if there is no consensus, then I will continue to let the rest of you re-add and re-delete the same entries over and over and over again - I wouldn't get any satisfaction that way.
Should some special kinds of slurs targetted at groups belonging to the same nation but different geographical/cultural background be included? Some examples: the word "Terrone" (present in the list as such) is in the list and it is used by Italians vs other Italians, discriminating on one's region of origin. Similarly, "Bulgarian" or "Turk" is used in Greece as a pejorative vs other Greeks from the N-NE regions. Should such "internal use" slurs be added to the list or is there some ruling specifically excluding them? EpiVictor 23:01, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Food metaphors for race was deleted leaving an enormous trace, especially via redirects Banana (person), Egg (person), Oreo Cookie (slang), Oreo (person). Needs cleanup. `' mikka 08:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I did a little clean up on this section since some racists obviously want to make new slurs.
I would like to add some easily available citations to slurs from the Quarantine, from earlier and bigger versions of the main list, and to orphaned "op. cit.", "loc. cit." and "Ibid." citations. Easily available means without driving to Seattle and without guessing what someone will consider to be an inadequate citation, as at [ [8]]. Here are some other online dictionaries that appear in the citations: [9], [10], [11], and [12]. I'm not a career academic or anything, so are these OK? Art LaPella 03:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Does [13] mean [14] is also on the unspecified out list, or does it mean I've lost my consensus? Art LaPella 03:55, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
I've stated before that I don't want to be part of the cycle of re-adding and re-deleting the same slurs, and therefore we should agree on standards for including slurs on the list. But there is no consensus on putting that into practice, and no discussion - some examples above. So I'm unwatching, and doing things that don't require herding cats. Art LaPella 16:53, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Are you honestly saying that 'Jew' is offensive? First of all, according to every dictionary I have seen it is listed at least as a synonym for 'Jewish' and the only way to make 'Jewish' plural is to add the 's' to Jew. Someone didn't think that one out. TaylorSAllen 03:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
This is mainly directed at the user Mikkalai: Please state your reason for removing Paddy and Taig - when they are neither unsourced nor vandalism. They are both derogatory terms for the Irish, and they have a legitimate place on this list. I'll be putting them back up unless I recieve a satisfactory explanation within the next few days. I'd like to hear anyone else's opinion on this too. Cat Constantine 10:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
It's not in the list but many Newfoundlanders find it offensive when said by someone who is not a Newfoundlander. I have a link, but I'm not sure if anyone can access the paper without having a subscription to blackwell-synergy. [21] Anyway, I think Newfie should be added to the list. There is already a page on wikipedia about it being a perjorative. Ctitiquer 05:22, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
(German speaking countries) term for Americans, sounds almost like "army", usually used in the diminutive
( Cold War era U.S.) A term referring to citizens of the Soviet Union. From the Russian word русский (pr. "rooskee"), meaning Russian (as in the language).
(US) an Italian American. Occasionally non-offensive.
It's cool that there is a quarantine list, but that's not what I care about. I think this page would be much better if the slurs were grouped by target group (blacks, Jews, etc), rather than alphabetically. Or, it would be more interesting and readable that way. Just a thought. Zweifel 03:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
For many of these, you just have to click on the link and that will take you somewhere. E.g. "wetback" -- will lead to Operation Wetback, with a citation from some Texas legal handbook. Are we that lazy? And it is ridiculous that "Whitey" has to go onto the quarantine list. I mean, come on! Zweifel 03:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
I mean it's not a reliable source, it's like a forum. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.99.80.41 ( talk) 18:55, 28 January 2007 (UTC).
If there are any questionable submissions, I encourage editors here to check here before removing them. It's nice because it's a published source. It's not a huge slang dictionary, but it's not tiny, either. Other good resources are Google Books or Amazon's Book Search, although the very best sources are still offline. The latter two sites are useful for ascertaining usage, which is just as good as a cite in a dictionary, in my opinion.-- Eeem eem 22( 23:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I mean it's not a reliable source, it's like a forum. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.99.80.41 ( talk) 18:55, 28 January 2007 (UTC).
If there are any questionable submissions, I encourage editors here to check here before removing them. It's nice because it's a published source. It's not a huge slang dictionary, but it's not tiny, either. Other good resources are Google Books or Amazon's Book Search, although the very best sources are still offline. The latter two sites are useful for ascertaining usage, which is just as good as a cite in a dictionary, in my opinion.-- Eeem eem 22( 23:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
This term is used in the film Three Kings —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.178.85.134 ( talk) 04:26, 11 December 2006 (UTC).
Eh, I don't know where to post this, but the word coon comes from RAcoon. Or at least that's been my experience; in the south, you used to use dogs to hunt racoons, and so when they were used to "hunt" black people in the practice of "coon hunting", it came to meen a black person or a raccoon. Here's a source: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/100-199/nb174.htm.
'White' female who likes/loves a 'black' male
Look here people no matter what color or where you from. i dont like racism, ethnic slurs or name calling, but the P-C wackos dont have the right to come here and delete the whole page. i dont like hatred and prejudice as much like you do, and we need to focus on our society obsession with race. im 45 years old person and an american white man (note i said person and american first). i dont feel a racial minority 'deserves' extra treatment, nor a white male gets the privilege while nobody can have it. im not for affirmative action, but not for discrimination. i grew up listenin to ethnic/racial jokes and i may laugh at em cuz they are stupid and came from uneducated people. i knew jokes about my own race and religion, my nationality and gender, and i feel this is how i view myself, but no self-hate as i hold no hate onto others. time to send the P-c nonsense to the historic trash bin. its out of style, but after 40 or 50 years of civil rights and social change, have we in the US moved on beyond racism? today most people know better not to treat others who are different in a negative way to dehumanize them, like the page on racial slurs tries to educate on the power of words. and you know, words dont hurt me unlike racial segregation in public places has hurt millions of americans who happen to have dark skin. i detest it and glad to see that practice gone (as the law put an end to the practice once common in my childhood). i treat everyone equal: women in my job (its always rude and improper to talk sex or grab their bodies, before the feminist womens lib thing or the sex harassment laws came about), respect peoples different religions (im a christian taught to love and care for others ahead of myself) and dont feel those who cant hold a job or have money are 'lazy' (is it snobbery to look down on others not $150,000 a year like myself?). i dont shout jokes about blacks, jews and gay men (i hold differing opinions on homosexuality and same sex marriage, but never want to hurt or poke fun on others over their sexual preference, and tats not my business to know whos gay or lesbian, nor anyones' personal life at home). am i tolerant and consider all people as human beings? yes i do and im a republican who feels our society must advance away from stopidity on race, handicap, class and the like. we are the same inside no matter what and every one needs to compete, study, work hard, be responsible, be mature and be profesional at their career. are we all adults here? it seems some of you never learned by now. my 3 children in their teens dont hold hate in their hearts, and had friends (and dates) of different races. i dont really see that. i dont mind havin them around me, my wife & them. whoever thinks racist ideas on other people, i suggest they just don't like people. - signed: open-minded conservative
I am npoving this terrible article which looks to me like an excuse for racists to come out of the woodwork and have a field day. We dont even have an ethnic slur article to tell us what it is. Its just pure offensiveness, SqueakBox 17:13, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Wiktionary is the right place for these words to be defined, not Wikipedia, although I can see a little value in having this full listing of them here as this article does. As such, I would recommend that going forward Wiktionary entries be created for each term and than each word listed be linked to its wiktionary entry. This makes it clear that most terms do not require their own articles here, just quick dictionary definitions. I also note that a large portion of these words are defined in standard dictionaries such as American Heritage and OED, thus that media is already established formally as an appropriate medium for defining these terms. -- 70.51.230.254 15:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Any entry which is nmot sourced is fair game for removal, so please dont revert bringing back unsourced material. Another wikipedia article is clearly not a citation and you cant have one rule for this article and another rule for every other article, SqueakBox 21:55, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Instead of
I have only done down to J so far but would like to continue to the end over the next couple of days, SqueakBox 00:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Through the commutative property of notability, it can be assumed that a term with a stand-alone article, or which is defined and sourced in another wikipedia article, has established its notability in that article. The policies of wikipedia should have already been applied and scrutinized as regards that other article. Stating that whenever a wikilink to another article is used, the sourcing information for the inclusion in that article must be reduplicated in the linking article is not a practice that is in use anywhere in wikipedia today. We must assume that sourcing is inherantly transcluded by virtue of the wikilink itself. Your initial comment was that "you cant have one rule for this article and another rule for every other article", and for this very sound reason, your suggestion MUST NOT be incorporated into this article's guidelines. Jerry lavoie 18:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
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Used to insult African American people who act "white" or have partial white ancestry. Similar to Twinkie referring to Asians "acting white." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.192.80.129 ( talk) 20:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC).
Usually used to be offensive against people from the Appalachian area, particularly people from Kentucky. I know you suggested not using ones from particular states, but this one is considered really offensive (I'm from Kentucky, I know), and people use it without realizing. Also, Redneck is oftentimes considered offensive by people from the south.
As in "ginger kids", pale white people with freckles and red hair. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mwalle ( talk • contribs) 05:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC).
I merged these entries (deleting Rosbeef and expanding on Rosbif) basically because it's redundant having both there when one will serve, and also because the explanation for "Rosbeef" was largely incorrect. It's not a large edit, but because this is such a controversial page I thought it needed adding here.-- Capreolus 11:25, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
I added an entry on a well known Alaskan native term for white man. There aren't too many sources on line, but I found one discussion of it. In regard to the self-application, I know of one St. Mary's flying service in the bush that calls its holding company "Gussic Ventures" in this spirit. My sense is Gussic has lost some of its edge over the decades but it is still a negative term. It is certainly much more negative than "cheechako" is currently, and both liguistically and geographically distinct. The author of my source suggests the term is rooted in "Cossack" and I've heard this as well, but I don't know that anyone has confirmed it. It is in common use in English among locals in SW and SC Alaska. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cosmoline ( talk • contribs) 20:27, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
That's what we (U.S. Army lower enlisted soldiers) often called the locals and enemies while in Afghanistan and Iraq; we realized that "Hadji" could be used both in a derogatory and at times (if a Muslim male had made the Hadj to Mecca) in a proper and respectful manner depending on the situation, circumstance, tone, intent, context, etc (for example, we called our translator, who apparently made the trip to Mecca "Hadji- man" and we held him in very high regard as he saved our butts numerous times! But then we would turn and say something like "that f'n hadjee is firing at me, get some m'er f'er"! BANG! BANG! BANG! Hadji-man knew the difference and understood with no offense or apparent problem- actually- I think we started calling them Had-gees after hearing him.). Anyway, "hadjee" is apparently a modern "politically correct" battlefield term that can skate the razor thin line of political correctness since the Army no longer lets soldiers use condescending terms for the enemy and local people anymore (like "gook" in the Vietnam War, "kraut" and "nip" in WW2, etc). The soldier on the battlefield certainly does know the meaning of "Had-gee" and Hadji, the difference between the two, and is quite capable to get around all the PC crap and still use our little slurs when he or she wants (I guess it is an example of political correctness run amuck in WAR -they can shoot at us and we can shoot them but we can't call them names like "dune-billy" and "sand-nigger" because, and understandably particularly in regard to the n-word in the sand-nigger slur, are way out-of-bounds in our PC military, go figure.). Anyway, sorry for the long editorial but I thought it might help give some history and perspective to whoever might do the potential entry into the main article here. And, just for the record, I do love and respect the good and beautiful Afghani and Iraqi people, it was just the a-holes that were trying to kill me, my buddies, and innocent people (and oh, by the way, you too -remeber 9/11?) that I have a "predjudice" against. HUAH!
Should state the origin, that being that negros have hair that looks like brown moss.
This term is used for people from South of Italy of semitic anchestry, non white italian.
(U.S.) someone of Filipino or Vietnamese descent. 'Dog Eater' also used against the Lakota for their practice of 'white dog feasts' (the white dog believed to be sacred) by whites, neighboring tribes, and even other Sioux tribes from the Dakota dialect who did not share this tradition/ritual. Generally considered quite offensive by the Lakota.
that's the name of the Americans (USA citizens) in Poland (sometimes)
I remember this used for the people escaping Viet Nam, etc. after it became communist. It was used with sympathy for them, not a slur. Has this changed? Steve Dufour 06:06, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I searched zhid and this article came out. However, where is the meaning of the word? In Russian language it's a derigatory term for Jews. Can someone add it please? I'm a new user and cannot edit this article.-- Glushak 10:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
add porch monkey for those of you that havent heard this word or seen Clerks 2 it means a lazy black person, althought the point of its appearance in the movie is to change it from a racial slur to a word to describe any lazy person - Avenged Evanfold 05:00, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be an entry for this term. E Batterschoom 12:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Check out its own outstanding article. However I still don't think it is an ethnic slur. Steve Dufour 17:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
I restored gweilo. I assume it was deleted because it is a Cantonese word. But English-speakers in Hong Kong use it. Of course, when an English-speaker uses it, it is not intended as a slur. It's the equivalent of gaijin for Japan and gringo for Mexico, i.e. they are words used by English-speakers who understand them to be slurs in another language. Both of those words remain on the list. (Actually, I think gaijin should be removed since it is standard Japanese and not normally a slur.) Kauffner 15:51, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not exactly sure of the true meaning or history of the word. I guess it is just slang over here in Philadelphia. I was told by a person from Latin America that he used the word "gringo" in protests against US military personnel in Latin America during times of governmental upheaval. He said that the US military wore green, so the Spanish-speaking protestors would yell "Green Go!" to make their protestations understood. He said that because of this the troops became known as gringos, and the term came to include any person from the US, especially pushy people.
entry lists it as "negro slang". Is that an oversight, or is some logic to using negro instead of black or African American? If there is a reason, it might be worth putting that in the list, since my first reaction was to change it to black. Natalie 03:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Leck misch in d´r Täsch! Ich bin zwar kein Jüdisch-Experte, aber das scheint mir eine deutscher Ausdruck zu sein !-- 134.155.36.20 12:25, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Is this the right article to list this term? For those of you who don't know, in the USA, Europe and Russia, the term "Armenian Shower", refers to an Armenian who had not bathed or showered, yet uses an excessive amount of perfume or other sented product to try to mask their body odor. The end result being an overpowering combination of offensive sents. Usage, "Smells like s/he just took an Armenian Shower." "He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian." - Woody Allen from Love and Death In Armenian culture it is considered unhealthy to bathe more than once a week. -- Softy Papa 03:22, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Try searching on Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc. it's out there, or visit Glendale, CA. It's used 100s of times a day there.-- Softy Papa 19:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Derogatory term for any Asian but especially a person of Vietnamese nationality. I have never really understood what it meant but Google tells me it that it supposedly has to do with the way their heads would 'open up' when shot with a high-powered rifle; originally used by American soldiers during the Vietnam conflict. It doesn't seem to be as widespread as I had thought.
I was just wondering why a word so familiar as "wop" has a citation needed-tag. What is the citation supposed to support? That such a word exists and that it has the meaning described? But this is well-known. My Oxford English Reference dictionary lists it as, I believe, do most good dictionaries. Its etymology is given at www.etymonline.com. What remains in doubt? garik 18:49, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
an annoying missconseption for the jewish religion. Needs citation to be added. Also, while I could understand, for example, 'Heeb,' Hebrew proper is the language of Judaism. Now, no one calls Indians 'Dravidians' based on language family, but still, I would disagree that Hebrew is offensive. It could also be noted that Judaism is defined as an ethnic religon, and, thus, the language attached to it, even if it is used with other small branches (I doubt there are any) of the religon could be argued as an appropriate name. One last comment, there are MANY other examples of linguistic names being attached to ethnic groups based on the name of the language. Ever used the term 'semitic'? That is not a specific language, actually a language family, but it gets the idea across. TaylorSAllen 03:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Is "Welsher" actually an ethnic slur against the Welsh, in the sense of "to welsh on a bet"? The supposed explanation ("offensive because it implies that is characteristic of the Welsh people") is unreferenced. The entry cites Dictionary.com, but no origin for the term is given there. Is it actually one of those coincidental expressions, like "niggardly", which sounds as though it should be offensive but really isn't? AdorableRuffian 23:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
A person from the Indian Ocean region, originating in 2004 after an earthquake caused a tsunami that killed over 250,000 people.
This article became *HUGE* (192Kb) and requires cleanup and posible split. For starters, I removed foreign-language ethnic slurs. If some of them have noticeable English usage, they may be put into a separate article. `' mikka (t) 18:35, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
What is the reason for this tag? Looking over the list it seems like much of the world is covered. Of course most of the words are only used in a limited area, and of course only the English language is covered. Should I go ahead and remove it? Steve Dufour 18:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
...if the only people who could add a slur were members of the slurred group and had really had it said to them. Too bad that is not possible. Just a thought. Steve Dufour 04:46, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
It's not that it's about slurs. Anything is worth learning about, even derogatory terms. However, can we monitor it so that people don't simply add a newly invented epithet or an arcane term or some endemic word only used in one region. There is no way to monitor this. It's just ridiculous that I can make up anything I want and put it in here and no one can check that for authenticity. This article unfortunately shows where Wikipedia fails as an encyclopedia. Or maybe it doesn't...this article is more about defining word then giving the origin or common uses of the words; therefore it doesn't belong in an encylopedia but in a dictionary. Arthurian Legend 14:14, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
This text is a placeholder for some very long-winded trolling and name-calling that was severely cluttering the talk page. I don't believe anything productive took place in the entire exchange, but I didn't want to go so far as to delete the section.
If you want to see what I took out, it's right here. If we can all agree I'm not depriving us of any opportunity for conversation by redacting it, then this entire section (yes, this text right here) can just be deleted. My Alt Account 08:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
This 'list' serves no purpose other than to provide ammunition for those already holding racist views. Also, many of the terms related to Jews and African Americans are clearly fabricated by some racist individual(s) with too much time on their hands. Panda
if anyone wants to stop will beback or anyone else from splitting the article, click on history, then the date of the version u want. the old version will display, so click edit, then save. this is pretty pathetic. they're deleting both unsourced + foreign slurs, so i guess that means all the slurs. i guess they dont give a shit about the keep results of those debates. Ymg55 09:53, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps this should be sorted by the group the word refers to, so it is easier to find a word to use in a specific situation. It is much harder this way.
Consider reverting this page back to an earlier version that is much more complete. The edits over the last couple months have totally butchered the list. For a topic such as this, it is unreasonable to require a citation as a prerequisite for word to be included in the list. See the following page for the list before it was destroyed: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_ethnic_slurs&oldid=55958195
I've just completed a round of cleanup by moving quite a few entries into List of regional nicknames and List of religious slurs, which are clearly non-ethnic. It seems to me that now the list is fairly clean. I have two suggestions, though.
`' mikkanarxi 00:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Some people claim they are, some claim they are not, and this also has a repercussion on the entries that are added/removed from the articles. Sure, even in a country where e.g. the population is mostly Christian, the most devote people will probably be object of ridicule or of pictoresque portrayal, there will even be special terms for mocking them , but would those qualify as ethnic slurs? EpiVictor 08:34, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
So, is Janet Reno a racist towards Branch Davidians? Is Scientology now a race? I say disambiguate it to religious and ethnic slurs. Calling religions races is nothing more than a ploy by their members to become immune to criticism. Jews are a special case though. There is a distinct and pronounced Jewish race, where as there is no Scientologist race, no Muslim race, no Christian race. Lord Patrick 21:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
I removed this example from the list. If someone feels that it should be returned to the list, there should be an appropriate explanation for what the term means, instead of the non neutral comment that was written formerly. 68.191.41.61 07:21, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Peatbog Sergeant ( talk · contribs) reverted the article back to a version before our big cleanup. [6] Unfortunately I didn't notice it for a couple of days. [7] Peatbog is possibly a sock of a banned editor who's done this kind of thing before, so it may happen again. - Will Beback · † · 06:21, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I've just trashed the whole old List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity which was 100% unreferenced (actually moved it to List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity/old) and started importing verifiable content from here. Please spare a minute or two to help me here. `' mikkanarxi 03:21, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I would assume that what your colleagues refer to is not a racist slur in itself but a device of racism which attempts to create devision or isolation by drawing attention to differences. For example a group of Chinese workers in an American company might constantly be referred to as "those Asians" e.g. "Here's where the development team works, and here's Bruce our Asian developer". It's not that "asian" itself is a slur, it's not actually even being used as a slur as it does not imply anything about the person that isn't true (i.e. they are Asian... At least by the American definition) it's the practise of singling people out, or dividing groups along ethnic lines that is racist. The same could apply if there was a blind worker in the office, constantly referring to the person by their disability would not make the word "blind" a slur but would still be unacceptable. -- JamesTheNumberless 12:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Will Beback and I have agreed to set standards for exactly what slurs belong in this article. If there is a consensus for these standards, I will help enforce them by deleting entries that don't conform to those standards. If there is a consensus for a different set of standards, I will help enforce that too - I'm proposing these standards mainly so we have something definite to consider, not because I really want to debate their details. But if there is no consensus, then I will continue to let the rest of you re-add and re-delete the same entries over and over and over again - I wouldn't get any satisfaction that way.
Should some special kinds of slurs targetted at groups belonging to the same nation but different geographical/cultural background be included? Some examples: the word "Terrone" (present in the list as such) is in the list and it is used by Italians vs other Italians, discriminating on one's region of origin. Similarly, "Bulgarian" or "Turk" is used in Greece as a pejorative vs other Greeks from the N-NE regions. Should such "internal use" slurs be added to the list or is there some ruling specifically excluding them? EpiVictor 23:01, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Food metaphors for race was deleted leaving an enormous trace, especially via redirects Banana (person), Egg (person), Oreo Cookie (slang), Oreo (person). Needs cleanup. `' mikka 08:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I did a little clean up on this section since some racists obviously want to make new slurs.
I would like to add some easily available citations to slurs from the Quarantine, from earlier and bigger versions of the main list, and to orphaned "op. cit.", "loc. cit." and "Ibid." citations. Easily available means without driving to Seattle and without guessing what someone will consider to be an inadequate citation, as at [ [8]]. Here are some other online dictionaries that appear in the citations: [9], [10], [11], and [12]. I'm not a career academic or anything, so are these OK? Art LaPella 03:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Does [13] mean [14] is also on the unspecified out list, or does it mean I've lost my consensus? Art LaPella 03:55, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
I've stated before that I don't want to be part of the cycle of re-adding and re-deleting the same slurs, and therefore we should agree on standards for including slurs on the list. But there is no consensus on putting that into practice, and no discussion - some examples above. So I'm unwatching, and doing things that don't require herding cats. Art LaPella 16:53, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Are you honestly saying that 'Jew' is offensive? First of all, according to every dictionary I have seen it is listed at least as a synonym for 'Jewish' and the only way to make 'Jewish' plural is to add the 's' to Jew. Someone didn't think that one out. TaylorSAllen 03:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
This is mainly directed at the user Mikkalai: Please state your reason for removing Paddy and Taig - when they are neither unsourced nor vandalism. They are both derogatory terms for the Irish, and they have a legitimate place on this list. I'll be putting them back up unless I recieve a satisfactory explanation within the next few days. I'd like to hear anyone else's opinion on this too. Cat Constantine 10:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
It's not in the list but many Newfoundlanders find it offensive when said by someone who is not a Newfoundlander. I have a link, but I'm not sure if anyone can access the paper without having a subscription to blackwell-synergy. [21] Anyway, I think Newfie should be added to the list. There is already a page on wikipedia about it being a perjorative. Ctitiquer 05:22, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
(German speaking countries) term for Americans, sounds almost like "army", usually used in the diminutive
( Cold War era U.S.) A term referring to citizens of the Soviet Union. From the Russian word русский (pr. "rooskee"), meaning Russian (as in the language).
(US) an Italian American. Occasionally non-offensive.
It's cool that there is a quarantine list, but that's not what I care about. I think this page would be much better if the slurs were grouped by target group (blacks, Jews, etc), rather than alphabetically. Or, it would be more interesting and readable that way. Just a thought. Zweifel 03:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
For many of these, you just have to click on the link and that will take you somewhere. E.g. "wetback" -- will lead to Operation Wetback, with a citation from some Texas legal handbook. Are we that lazy? And it is ridiculous that "Whitey" has to go onto the quarantine list. I mean, come on! Zweifel 03:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
I mean it's not a reliable source, it's like a forum. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.99.80.41 ( talk) 18:55, 28 January 2007 (UTC).
If there are any questionable submissions, I encourage editors here to check here before removing them. It's nice because it's a published source. It's not a huge slang dictionary, but it's not tiny, either. Other good resources are Google Books or Amazon's Book Search, although the very best sources are still offline. The latter two sites are useful for ascertaining usage, which is just as good as a cite in a dictionary, in my opinion.-- Eeem eem 22( 23:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I mean it's not a reliable source, it's like a forum. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.99.80.41 ( talk) 18:55, 28 January 2007 (UTC).
If there are any questionable submissions, I encourage editors here to check here before removing them. It's nice because it's a published source. It's not a huge slang dictionary, but it's not tiny, either. Other good resources are Google Books or Amazon's Book Search, although the very best sources are still offline. The latter two sites are useful for ascertaining usage, which is just as good as a cite in a dictionary, in my opinion.-- Eeem eem 22( 23:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
This term is used in the film Three Kings —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.178.85.134 ( talk) 04:26, 11 December 2006 (UTC).
Eh, I don't know where to post this, but the word coon comes from RAcoon. Or at least that's been my experience; in the south, you used to use dogs to hunt racoons, and so when they were used to "hunt" black people in the practice of "coon hunting", it came to meen a black person or a raccoon. Here's a source: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/100-199/nb174.htm.
'White' female who likes/loves a 'black' male
Look here people no matter what color or where you from. i dont like racism, ethnic slurs or name calling, but the P-C wackos dont have the right to come here and delete the whole page. i dont like hatred and prejudice as much like you do, and we need to focus on our society obsession with race. im 45 years old person and an american white man (note i said person and american first). i dont feel a racial minority 'deserves' extra treatment, nor a white male gets the privilege while nobody can have it. im not for affirmative action, but not for discrimination. i grew up listenin to ethnic/racial jokes and i may laugh at em cuz they are stupid and came from uneducated people. i knew jokes about my own race and religion, my nationality and gender, and i feel this is how i view myself, but no self-hate as i hold no hate onto others. time to send the P-c nonsense to the historic trash bin. its out of style, but after 40 or 50 years of civil rights and social change, have we in the US moved on beyond racism? today most people know better not to treat others who are different in a negative way to dehumanize them, like the page on racial slurs tries to educate on the power of words. and you know, words dont hurt me unlike racial segregation in public places has hurt millions of americans who happen to have dark skin. i detest it and glad to see that practice gone (as the law put an end to the practice once common in my childhood). i treat everyone equal: women in my job (its always rude and improper to talk sex or grab their bodies, before the feminist womens lib thing or the sex harassment laws came about), respect peoples different religions (im a christian taught to love and care for others ahead of myself) and dont feel those who cant hold a job or have money are 'lazy' (is it snobbery to look down on others not $150,000 a year like myself?). i dont shout jokes about blacks, jews and gay men (i hold differing opinions on homosexuality and same sex marriage, but never want to hurt or poke fun on others over their sexual preference, and tats not my business to know whos gay or lesbian, nor anyones' personal life at home). am i tolerant and consider all people as human beings? yes i do and im a republican who feels our society must advance away from stopidity on race, handicap, class and the like. we are the same inside no matter what and every one needs to compete, study, work hard, be responsible, be mature and be profesional at their career. are we all adults here? it seems some of you never learned by now. my 3 children in their teens dont hold hate in their hearts, and had friends (and dates) of different races. i dont really see that. i dont mind havin them around me, my wife & them. whoever thinks racist ideas on other people, i suggest they just don't like people. - signed: open-minded conservative
I am npoving this terrible article which looks to me like an excuse for racists to come out of the woodwork and have a field day. We dont even have an ethnic slur article to tell us what it is. Its just pure offensiveness, SqueakBox 17:13, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Wiktionary is the right place for these words to be defined, not Wikipedia, although I can see a little value in having this full listing of them here as this article does. As such, I would recommend that going forward Wiktionary entries be created for each term and than each word listed be linked to its wiktionary entry. This makes it clear that most terms do not require their own articles here, just quick dictionary definitions. I also note that a large portion of these words are defined in standard dictionaries such as American Heritage and OED, thus that media is already established formally as an appropriate medium for defining these terms. -- 70.51.230.254 15:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Any entry which is nmot sourced is fair game for removal, so please dont revert bringing back unsourced material. Another wikipedia article is clearly not a citation and you cant have one rule for this article and another rule for every other article, SqueakBox 21:55, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Instead of
I have only done down to J so far but would like to continue to the end over the next couple of days, SqueakBox 00:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Through the commutative property of notability, it can be assumed that a term with a stand-alone article, or which is defined and sourced in another wikipedia article, has established its notability in that article. The policies of wikipedia should have already been applied and scrutinized as regards that other article. Stating that whenever a wikilink to another article is used, the sourcing information for the inclusion in that article must be reduplicated in the linking article is not a practice that is in use anywhere in wikipedia today. We must assume that sourcing is inherantly transcluded by virtue of the wikilink itself. Your initial comment was that "you cant have one rule for this article and another rule for every other article", and for this very sound reason, your suggestion MUST NOT be incorporated into this article's guidelines. Jerry lavoie 18:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)