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  2. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    Originated as "Shaking Quakers", in reference to their similarity to Quakers as well as their charismatic worship practices, which involved dancing, shouting, and speaking in tongues. The term was originally derogatory, but very early on was embraced and used by the Shakers themselves. [26] [27] [28] Shouting Methodists United States, United ...

  3. Quaker missionaries - Wikipedia

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    A significant proportion of Quaker women never married, were widowed, or married late without having children. This allowed women more freedom to pursue religious obligations. Some women chose husbands who were "sympathetic" to their religious pursuits. [2] Female missionaries were mandated to work in pairs of the same sex. Some of these paired ...

  4. List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

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    The term Kartoffel (German for potato) is a derogatory slang term for Germans without migratory roots. In the 19th century it was used to describe areas of Germany in a need of eating potatoes like "potatosaxons". Gastarbeiter used the term "potatoeater" for Germans, while "spaghettieater" meant migrant Italians and "kebabeaters" Turks. Today ...

  5. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    Braunschweiger—a liverwurst cold-cut (though, in Germany, Braunschweiger describes a smoked ground beef sausage). Bratwurst (also brat)—a type of frying sausage. Budweiser—a beer, named after Budweis, the German name of Budějovice, a city in Southern Bohemia. Bundt cake (from Bundkuchen; in German: a Gug(e)lhupf)—a ring cake.

  6. History of the Quakers - Wikipedia

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    The Quakers have historically believed in equality for men and women. Two Quaker women are part of the history of science, specifically astronomy. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, from Northern Ireland, is credited with being a key part of research that later led to a Nobel Prize Physics. However, she was not a recipient of the prize. [3]

  7. Rhineland bastard - Wikipedia

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    Young Rhinelander who was classified as a bastard and hereditarily unfit under the Nazi regime. Rhineland bastard (German: Rheinlandbastard) was a derogatory term used in Nazi Germany to describe Afro-Germans, born of mixed-race relationships between German women and black African men of the French Army who were stationed in the Rhineland during its occupation by France after World War I.

  8. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity - Wikipedia

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    The term is a reference to the distinctive dirwa hairstyle used by many Beja men. [23] Gam, Gammat (South Africa) Used to refer to Cape Coloureds or Coloureds. It means "a person who is low or of inferior status" in Afrikaans. [24] [25] Golliwogg (Commonwealth) a dark-skinned person, named after Florence Kate Upton's children's book character. [26]

  9. Quakers - Wikipedia

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    According to Quakers In The World, "The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the USA is widely considered to date from the First Women’s Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York State in 1848. This meeting was instigated by five women who had been closely involved in the abolition of slavery, all but one of whom were Quakers."