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(US) a racial term used to refer to Filipino guerillas during the Philippine–American War. The term came from gugo, the Tagalog name for Entada phaseoloides or the St. Thomas bean, the bark of which was used by Filipinas to shampoo their hair. The term was a predecessor to the term gook, a racial term used to refer to all Asian people. [70 ...
Hooligan is an English word for rowdy, criminal, irresponsible people that, while it is not exactly an ethnic slur, has racist roots, being derived as a mocking term to Irish people, derived from "Hoolihan", an Irish surname, and intentionally made to sound like an Irish word.
The connotation of that word pocho sounded negative to me. That word makes one feel as if they have no identity of their own because one does not know how to identify themselves: whether as American or Mexican. [11] Andres Gallegos, in a 2018 essay for Borderzine, described the experience of being labeled pocho as that of "juggling identities ...
While some people call it Gen Z slang or Gen Z lingo, these words actually come from Black culture, and their adoption among a wider group of people show how words and phrases from Black ...
Savage is a derogatory term to describe a person or people the speaker regards as primitive and uncivilized. It has predominantly been used to refer to indigenous , tribal , and nomadic peoples. Sometimes a legal, military, and ethnic term, it has shifted in meaning since its first usages in the 16th century.
2804:7F7:A78B:8D49:C062:E95A:757C:208C 23:54, 23 January 2021 (UTC) cracker is not a slur. putting it as a slur is racist, because white people are not opressed for being white. please remove it Not done: Simply because you think its racist is not reason to remove it (WP:NOTCENSORED). Anyway, its properly sourced to a proper reliable source so ...
A racist term for a Native American woman will be removed from nearly three dozen geographic features and place names on California lands, the state Natural Resources Agency announced Friday ...
Chicano may derive from the Mexica people, originally pronounced Meh-Shee-Ka. [43]The etymology of the term Chicano is the subject of some debate by historians. [44] Some believe Chicano is a Spanish language derivative of an older Nahuatl word Mexitli ("Meh-shee-tlee").