Some name callings

• ginzo | Italian Mafia types

• gringo | The word-of-mouth allegations spread rapidly throughout Guatemala: gringos are snatching babies and ripping out their vital organs for sale abroad. [Time mag.] | [see AHD notes on gringo]

• honky | movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger is a honky.

• hunky | esp laborer, East central Europe.

• white trash | in movie _Silence of the Lamb_ (199x), agent Clarice is being called a white trash by the Doctor.

• redskin | Native American. aka American Indian. (see AHD note)

• canuck | Canadian

• redneck | rubes in US of A

• dago | Italian or Spaniard or Portuguese

• Kraut | German. the doctor in movie _Dr. Strangelove_ is a kraut.

• wetback | Mexican, especially those entered USA illegally. (because they swim through Rio Grande river, ~1929)

• Jap | probably originated from WWII, by the Americans

• Chink | probably originated in America, in the Chinese begrudging era

• coon | black person [etymology: because coon means dirty, soiled. ?]

See also: comprehensive and esoteric collection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_slurs

Page created: 2005.
© 2004 by Xah Lee.
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