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Peon (English / ˈ p iː ɒ n /, from the Spanish peón Spanish pronunciation:) usually refers to a person subject to peonage: any form of wage labor, financial exploitation, coercive economic practice, or policy in which the victim or a laborer (peon) has little control over employment or economic conditions.
While the term "coloured" may be seen as offensive in some other western countries, such as Britain and the United States of America, [139] it is currently treated as a neutral description in Southern Africa for people of mixed race. [140] Japies, Yarpies mildly derogative term for white South Africans, especially those of Afrikaner descent.
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names
The extent to which specific terms (such as allochtoon in the Netherlands or Pākehā in New Zealand) should be considered offensive is often a source of public debate. Nonetheless, these terms can be distinguished from ethnic slurs which are always derogatory and always refer to specific ethnic groups (rather than outsiders in general).
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština; Dansk
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