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Around the world, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and internally displaced persons have been the victims of racial discrimination, racist attacks, xenophobia and ethnic and religious intolerance. [10] According to the Human Right Watch, "racism is both a cause and a product of forced displacement, and an obstacle to its solution." [10]
In English, yid can be used both as a neutral or derogatory term, [154] whereas the Russian zhyd came to be a pejorative term banned by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s. [ 155 ] [ 156 ] However, in most other Slavic languages (e.g. Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian), the term simply translates to 'Jew' (e.g. Polish: żyd ) and is thus ...
The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnic, national, or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner.
In some English-speaking countries, the conical hat worn by many Asians, to protect themselves from the sun, is sometimes called a "coolie hat". In the information technology industry, offshore workers are sometimes referred to as coolies because of their lower wages. The term coolie appears in the Eddy Howard song, "The Rickety Rickshaw Man".
The insult is commonly used to attack people in minoritised communities but debate persists as to whether it is racist.
The revised Oxford English Dictionary cites the shorter term "racism" in a quote from the year 1903. [21] It was defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition 1989) as "[t]he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race"; the same dictionary termed racism a synonym of racialism : "belief in the ...
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
Racism remains a minor problem in Singapore and some stereotypes have led to cases of public bullying and racially hurtful commentary, such as being called a 'black tofu'. [ 73 ] Lower class foreign workers congregate in the Indian historical and now tourist enclave called Little India . [ 73 ]