Names of Foreigners or Foes
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Reference Notes
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"Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the
20th-century fin-de-siècle. What holds humanity together
today is the denial of what the human race has in common."
by Eric Hobsbawm [Anthropology Today (Feb 1992)]
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slur
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explanation
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Husky; Chukcha; Kayaker; Tundra Trekker; also burly or brawny
[cf: stout]
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Inuit or Eskimo [Huskemaw / Uskemaw / Esquimaux]
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Eskimo; Sko/Skimo [allegedly derived from "eater of raw meat",
but actually transferred from Micmac (Esqimawe) meaning 'snowshoe
netter']
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Inuit / Innuit; Yupik; Inupiak / Inupiaq; Inupiat; Aleut;
Chukcha; Tlingit; native Alaskan
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Kabloonuk [deriv: person with bushy eyebrows]
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any non-native Alaskan (non-Eskimo, non-Inuit; non-Yupik;
non-Inupiat; non-Aleut)
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Cheechako [deriv: newcomer]
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any newly arrived Alaskan or northern Canadian ("Northlander"),
being a tenderfoot or greenhorn
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Lapp; Laplander [patchwork]
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any transnational Sami/Saami; ethnic minority in northern Europe
and Russia near the Baltic, White, and Berents seas
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Crow; Raven; Blackbird
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Sparrow Hawk, Absaroka
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destroyer
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Pequot, Narragansett
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Bug's Boys, Child of Satan
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Blackfoot
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rock
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Assiniboine
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Digger
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Paiute/Piute [v: Ozzie/Aussie]
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Pima
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Akimel O'odham/Ahkeemult O'odham [literally I don't
know.]
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Comanche
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Shoshone separatists; Nunima [for those who always want to
fight us by Ute]
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Snake
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Shoshone
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Sioux, Nadouessioux [from Ojibwa for Dakota/Lakota]
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enemies / little snakes
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Ojibwa [from Algonquian for "roast until puckered"]; Chippewa
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people of the lakes, who were driven westward by the Iroquois
using the torture of captives after war
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Dog-eater
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Arapaho [Inuna-ina (our people)] and Lakota [from ritual white
dog feast]
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Mohawk
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cannibal [by Algonquian for Kaniengehaga/Kanienkehaka]
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bark-eater; Adirondack
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any of the Algonquian people who were notorious among the
Iroquois confederation for their inability to hunt, fish, and
farm well enough to prevent starvation each winter
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Apache
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enemies [by Zuni Pueblo for Ndee]
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Navajo
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thieves [by Tewa Pueblo for Diné]
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hopeless
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Hopi, Moki, Moqui [v: Tewa; cf: kachina]
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noisy
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Tapage/Tapago [Pawnee; cf: Papago, Caddoan]
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Sand-house People; Rope Foot (sandle) People
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Papago [from corruption of "bean-eater"]
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Shawnee
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mud people [Delaware Sawanoki ("People of the South")]
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Tobacco Nation
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Wyandot [Tionontati] with Huron [Wendat]
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Five Nations
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the confederacy of Iroquois, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga,
and Seneca tribes
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Pawnee Picts
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Wichita [French: Panis piqués] for tattoos
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Cannibal [anthropophagi/anthropoghagia]
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Carib [Galibi, Caríbal]; Arawak
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Mosquito
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Miskito
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Siwash
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savage [French: sauvage] for AmerIndians
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Indian; Red Indian; Redskin; 'skin; Injun; Chief; Wahoo; Whooper;
Feather; Hatchet Holder; Tomahawker; Scalper; Blanket-ass; Apple;
Radish; Uncle Tom-tom; Tipi Tom; Tepee Creeper; Spruce Monkey;
Prairie Nigger [v: buck, squaw]
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native American; AmerIndian; aborigine; autochthon; native
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White Indian; Pretendian; Wish-um; WOPindian; Pseudo-Indian;
Windian; Make-believe Indian
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false or fake AmerIndian; as pretender, poseur, dissimulator,
dissembler, imposter, deceiver, phony, bogus, wannabe,
split- / double-tongue
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Forked-tongue; Split-tongue; Double-tongue
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Liar; Falsifier; Prevaricator; Fabricator; Perjurer; Fibber;
Dissembler; Misstater; Palterer; Hoodwinker; Faker; Storyteller;
Equivocator [cf: Indian giver]
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Indio
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native MesoAmerican or Filipino [cf: Spanish criollo]
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Metis/Metisse [métis/métisse]
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mixed-race or half-breed, especially French and Indian ancestry
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Redbone; Cajan/Cajun; Coon-ass; Gumbo; Pinto; Swamp Rat; Red
Nigger; Cherry Nigger
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mixed AmerIndian race blended with Hispanic, Negroid, and/or
Caucasian ancestry; also osrouge [v: Melungeon, Lumbee,
Nanticoke]
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Mestizo
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mixed-race native MesoAmerican or Filipino [cf: Spanish criollo]
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Creole; Creole of Color
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mixed Black and French or Spanish ancestry in Louisiana
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Half-breed; Half-caste; Half-baked; Half-human
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mixed-race offspring of miscegenation
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Mongrel; Scrub; Mutt; Dalmatian; Pinto; Paint; Calico; Piebald;
Appaloosa; Dun; Red-headed Stepchild
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mixed-race offspring of miscegenation, especially of
indeterminate breeding; stunted or inferior
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Bastard; Foundling/Left in the Basket; Naturale/Natural Child;
Love Child; Bantling/Bankling; Son of the Packsaddle/Fils de
Bast; Red-headed Stepchild; Mordredite/Modredite
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illegitimate issue of unmarried parents
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Nigger Lover; Coal Burner; Slept With A Nigger (SWAN)
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interracial couple; intimate relationship between persons of
different races, especially black and white
[cf: criollo, Acadian]
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Creole
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descendent from French or Spanish settlers of Louisiana
[cf: criollo, Acadian]
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Chicano/Chicana
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Mexican-American
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Spic/Spig
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Hispanic; Latino/Latina; Mexican-American; Spanish-American
[from no speak English]
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Beaner; Bean-eater
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Hispanic; Latino/Latina; Mexican-American; Spanish-American;
Chicano/Chicana
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Bean-eater
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Papago
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Wetback; Iceback; Mojado; Soak; Dryback; Frostback; Pineback
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illegal immigrant or unauthorized guest worker,
especially into the United States from Latin America or Canada
[after name of 1954 Eisenhower project to restrict illegal
immigration] [cf: wop]
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Gringo
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non-Hispanic foreigner in Latin America
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WASP; Whitey; Paleface; Rice-face; Fish-belly; White Bread; White
Meat; Bolillo; Ivory; White Devil; Ghost; Casper; Snowman;
Pigmently-challenged; Melanin Deficient; Haole; Ofay/Fay;
Buckra/Bucker; Cracker; Honky; Blue-Eyed Devil; Hillbilly; Hill
Jack; Ridge Runner; Stump Jumper; Termite; Peckerwood; Redneck;
White Trash; Trailer Park Trash; Mister Charlie; White Hope/Great
White Hope; Tarzan; Blue Blood; Massa; Master Race; Wite Man; The
Man; Yakoo
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant; Caucasian; Aryan; Wight
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Blue-eyed Soul; Whack; Wigger/Wiggerette; White Negro; White
Chocolate; Negrophiliac; Nigger Digger; Nigger Happy; Nigger
Lover
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false or fake Black or Negro; as pretender, poseur, dissimulator,
dissembler, imposter, deceiver, phony, bogus, wannabe, or fake
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Skunk; High-Yellow / High-Yaller; Incognegro; White-Wash
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mulatto; quadroon; octoroon
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Spook; Smoke; Spear-chucker; Bro/Brother; Soul Brother/Sister;
Homeboy/Homey; Ebony; Blackamoor; Black-a-vised/Black-a-viced;
Nig-nog/Niknok; Blood; Superfly; Black Panther; Black Muslim;
Buffalo Soldier; Dinge; Shade; Darky; Spade; Shine; Moke;
Brownie; Blue Gum; Jim Crow; Stepn Fetchit/Steppan Fetchit; Uncle
Ben; Aunt Jemima; Brown Sugar; Beulah; Buckwheat; Tar Baby;
Boogie; Coon; Americoon; Africoon; Maroon; Splib/Spliv; Buck;
Dark Meat; Jungle Bunny; Nappy; Afro; Brillo; Cotton Ball;
Golliwogg; Blackbird; Swamper; Swamp Donkey; Cotton-picker;
Pickaninny/Picaninny/Piccaninny (pickin/pequenino); Token; Twofer
(quota); Oreo; Sambo/Zambo; Lawn Jockey; Porch Monkey; Yard Ape;
Missing Link; Night Fighter; Eightball/8-Ball; Nig/Nigger;
Kaffir; Jig/Jigga/Jigaboo; Thinga-ma-jigger/Thinga-ma-nigger;
Billy Reuben (bilirubin); Schvartz/Shvartz [German Black]; Ding
Dong [Thai "farang dum" = Black foreigner]
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Black; Negro; Creole; Afro-American; Colored Person [v:
Slav/Slovak]
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Hottentot [from Afrikaans]
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Khoikhoi, San, Nama
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Mau Mau
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member of Gikuyu/Kikuyu terrorist society in Kenya [not a tribe]
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Mleccha
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foreign barbarian, non-Hindu [Sanskrit: non-Aryan]
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Raghead; Towel-head; Diaper-head; Sheet-head [from kaffiyeh,
turban]
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Arabic/Persian/Islamic male
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Bint; Bint-Laden; Black Moving Object /BMO; Black Pillar Box;
Batman; Beekeeper; Pajama Mamma
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Arabic/Persian/Islamic woman
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Camel Jockey; Camel Cowboy; Goat Roper; Snake Charmer; Carpet
Pilot; Rug Rider; Sandy; Sand Flea; Sand Monkey; Sand Nigger;
Desert Darky; Dune Coon; Tarsh; Ali Baba; Ahab; Aladdin; Habib;
Zalama; Zol
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Arabic/Persian/Islamic person
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Muzzie; Mussulman/Muslim; Muhammadan;
Islamite/Islamist/Islamizer; Hajji/Hadji
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adherent of Islam
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Paki; Pac Man; Gunga Din
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Pakistani or other south Asian, especially a Mid-Eastern racial
or ethnic minority immigrant
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Turban Cowboy; Florence of Arabia; Larry of Lebanon (and so
forth)
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sympathetic non-Muslim in the Near East or south Asia who's
trying to be assimilated [nb: "urban turban" is an Arab acting
Black]
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Vandal
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destroyer [from Germanic tribe]
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Goth
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barbarian [v: Ostrogoth, Visigoth]
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Hun
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WWI/WWII German soldier; any destructive barbarian, after tribe
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Boche [blockhead]; Squarehead; Cabbage-head [kraut, sauerkraut]
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WWI/WWII German soldier
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Heinie; Fritz
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WWI German soldier (after shortening of common name; Heinrich
[Heine] and Frederick or Friedrich) [nb: "heinie", by alteration
of 'hinder', also means buttocks or derrière]
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Kraut; Cabbage-head
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German, especially a WWI/WWII soldier (by shortening of
sauerkraut)
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Macaroni
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Italian [funeral banquet]; English dandy [affect]
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Wop [allegedly an acronym derived from "Without Official Papers"
or "WithOut Passport"]
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Italian [from "swaggerer" (guappo) for a pimp, ruffian, or
worthless person; cf: wog]
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Dago; Gink/Ginzo; Guinea/Ginney
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someone of Italian or Spanish origin or descent
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Crapaud
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French frog [from British troops against Napoleonic army]
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Frog
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French [by British from bullfrog deportment; frogleg diet;
fleur-de-lis resemblance to squatting frog]
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Kanaka
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Hawaiian; Sandwich Islander; Polynesian
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Malihini
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newcomer to Hawaii [derived from stranger; cf: haole]
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Manihini
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visitor to Tahiti; guest [derived from bird; cf: malihini]
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Chink/Chinkie; ChiCom/Gooey; Laundryman; Cataian
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Chinaman
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Lo Fan
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barbarian, especially white foreigner [non-Chinese]
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Lao Wei
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non-Chinese foreigner, especially white resident
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Dwarf Bandit [from Chinese for marauding]; Half Pig-foot [from
Korean for split-toed footwear]
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Japanese, especially Imperialist
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Nip; Jap
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Nipponese/Japanese, especially Imperialist
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Meatball
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Imperial Japanese [from national rising sun motif]
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Gaijin
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outsider; a foreigner in Japan
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Gaiko
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barbarian [non-Japanese]
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Flip
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Filipino [cf: gook]
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Gook
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Filipino [googoo/gugu]; Korean; Asian or Oriental
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Slope; Dink; Zip/Zipper/Zipperhead; Slant-Eye; Gook/Gooey; Rice
Ball; Basket Head; Buddhahead
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Asian or Oriental (including Chink and Nip or Jap)
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Gomer
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Viet Cong; North Vietnamese; Bo Doi; PAVN
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Charlie/Charley; Victor Charlie [from phonetic alphabet]; Chuck;
Charles; Sir Charles; Mister Charles
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Viet Cong [a contraction of "Viet-nam Cong-san", the term
invented by President Ngo Dinh Diem for the communist forces
fighting in South Vietnam]
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Bennie
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Falkland Islanders [TV character; after failed invasion]
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Still
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Falkland Islanders [still Bennie, after prohibition]
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Polack
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Pole, or someone of Polish descent
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Hunky
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Hungarian or Magyar; extended to Czech and Romanian
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Bohunk
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contraction of Bohemian and Hungarian; extended to Czech and
Ukrainian as well as Magyar
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Russki; Red; Katsap/Catsup; Radish; Commie; Bullshitvik; Ivan;
Charlie Brown
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Russian or Soviet socialist ['katsap' is corruption of Ukrainian
'goatee' (kak tzap: like a goat), and tomato sauce (ketchup), a
red condiment]
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Paddy; Mick; Bog-trotter; Potato Head; Spud People; Pot-Licker
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Irishman, or someone from Ireland
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Limey; Tommy/ Tommy Atkins; Lobster-back; Redcoat; Beefeater;
John Bull; Jack Tar; Peter Collins; Brit
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Englishman, especially British sailors and soldiers [v: macaroni]
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Joe Bloggins; Joe Bloggs
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Canadian, especially sailors and soldiers [v: macaroni]
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Pommy
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play on 'Tommy', as ponce [a Brit in Australia or New
Zealand]
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Kiwi
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New Zealander
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Pakeha
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non-Maori New Zealander, especially of European descent [probably
derived from imaginary pale-skinned beings]
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Ozzie; Digger; Aussie
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Australian, especially Australian soldiers serving elsewhere [v:
Paiute/Piute]
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Walloon
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French-speaking resident of southeast Belgium
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Slav/Slovak
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slave
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Pilgrim
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traveler in a foreign place
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Stranger
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anyone who is unknown or unacquainted; someone who is unconnected
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Xenophobe
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fearful of foreigners or strange customs
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Tramontane; Ultramontane
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foreigner; someone who lives beyond the mountains
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Barbarian
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uncivilized savage, as from another culture [non-Greek]
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Outsider
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non-member
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Philistine
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someone lacking refinement or indifferent to culture
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Civilian
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non-military; non-paramilitary; non-professional
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Outlander; Auslander; Uitlander
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non-native
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Alien
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unnaturalized foreigner owing other allegiance
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Half-tounue
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a jury composed equally of citizens and aliens impaneled for the
trial of a foreigner
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Nativist
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anti-immigrant
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Know-Nothing
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American nativist; ignoramus; agnostic
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Yankee; Ugly American; Typical American Prick (TAP)
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initially, non-Dutch New England businessman; later, American
capitalist [cf: Uncle Sam, Brother Jonathan, John Cheese]
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Mugwump
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independent [Proto-Algonquian: mugquomp/muggumquomp] for war
leader; swift man
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Jingoist
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belligerent patriot
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Flowering Flag Devil
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patriotic American [from Chinese for flag wavers]
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Chauvinist
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blindly loyal zealot, especially ideologue or patriot
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Red
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politically radical or leftist, as communism or totalitarianism
[cf: indebtedness, prostitution]
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Pinko/Pink; Lefty; Liberal; Fellow Traveler; Fifth Columnist
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leftist or socialist ideology [not as extreme as 'red']
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Undesirable
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non-Aryan [untermensch]
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Wog/Golliwogg [the name of a grotesque black doll in an
illustrated series of children's books by Bertha and Florence
Upton]; WOG [Wily Oriental Gentleman or Westernized Oriental
Gentleman]
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non-white non-European foreigner [cf: wop]
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Firange; Ferengi; Firanji; Gaijin; Effendi; Effemdi; Foreign
Devil
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white European foreigner [India, Japan, China, Egypt, etc]
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Farangi
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white European foreigner [Persia]
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Afrandj; Firinjia
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white European foreigner [Arabic]
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Farang
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white European foreigner [Thai]
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Pha Rang; Pha Rang Xa
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white European foreigner [Vietnamese]
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Bok See Dah
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white European foreigner [Laotian]
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Barang
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white European foreigner [Khmer]
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Parangiar
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white European foreigner [Tamil]
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Gweilo; Ang Moh; Yang Nam
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foreign devil, red-haired caucasian, Yankee bastard, Occidental
[Chinese "white ghost"]
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Foreign Devil
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non-native, especially an Occidental in the Orient
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Pagan
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not a monotheist
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Heathen
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unconverted to monotheism
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Infidel
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disbeliever; unbeliever; non-believer [cf: atheist]
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Kaffir/Kafir; Giaour
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skeptic; unbeliever
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Gentile
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non-Jew; non-Mormon; not native
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Goy/Goyim
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non-Jew [goi = nation]
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Kike; Hymie; Hebe; Sheeny/Sheeney/Sheenie; Yid
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anyone observing the Jewish faith or someone of Jewish descent
(any nationality)
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Little Brown Brother/Little Brown Buddy
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paternalistic adoption of select foreign persons or peoples by
materially advanced or culturally superior
benefactors, especially advisers to indigenous people; phrases
originally referred to Filipinos
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Gink; Guy; Fellow/Feller/Fella; Dude; Neighbor; Friend; Chap;
Cobber; Cove; Chum; Pal; Buddy; Mate; Partner/Pard; Amigo; Mac;
Jack; John; Jake; Charlie; Tom, Dick, and Harry; John Doe; Joe
Blow; John Doe; Joe Doakes; John Q. Public; Richard Row;
Brother/Bro; Sister/Sis; You/Y'all/You-all; Bub; Bubba; Bumpkin;
Yokel; Boy; Beggar; Sod; Bugger; Bozo
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person; individual; anyone
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Cop/Copper; Bluecoat; Pig; Narc; Fuzz; Bear/Smoky Bear; Bull;
Flatfoot; Heat; the Man; the Law; John Law; Long Arm of the Law;
Law Dog; Deputy Dog; Plainclothesman; Gumshoe; Dick; Rookie;
Star; Square Badge; tipstaff; catchpole; Nab; Peeler; Bobby;
Mountie; Flic
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police; police officer; policeman; peace officer; sheriff;
marshal; inspector; detective; constable; master-at-arms;
sergeant-at-arms; security guard; turnkey; jailer; meter
maid; shrieve; bailiff; beadle; reeve; lawman; patrolman;
highway patrolman; state trooper; Texas Ranger; revenuer;
provost marshal; provost guard; Gendarme; Carabiniere; Cheka;
Gestapo
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Fag; Faggot; Nance; Nancy Boy; Pantywaist; Friend of Dorothy;
Limp Wrist; Pansy; Poof; Sissy; Swish; Queen/Queenie; Closet
Queen; Drag Queen; Gay; Flit; Fairy; Fay; Fruit; Fruit Loop;
Girlyboy; Dolly Boy; Ponce; Punter; Queer; $3 Bill; Cocksucker;
Flute; Baloney Smoker; Bug-eyed Cumsucker; Big-lipped Cumsucker;
Brown-tailed Cumsucker; Spunk Monkey; Knob Jockey; Sausage
Jockey; Cock Jockey; Bone Smuggler; Fudge Packer; Chocolate
Puncher; Rump Romper; Rump Rider; Rump Wrangler; Rump Rustler;
Backdoor Burglar; Cornholer; Patootie Pirate; Rectum Ranger; Anal
Assassin; Anal Astronaut; Booty Buffer; Butt Bandit; Bum Chum;
Bugger; Sod; Sodomite; Pervert; Invert; Shirt Lifter; Chicken
Hawk; Queer Bait; Boy Toy; Catamite; Gunsel; Punk; Pederast;
Homo; Homophile; Lesbian; Lez; Lezzie; Lezbo; Sapphist;
Sapphomorph; Morphodite; Morphodyke; Tribads/Tribades;
Fricatrice; Confricatrice; Rubster; Clitty Kitty; Femme;
Twisted Sister; Lipstick; Dillydally Dolly; Dildo Darling; Dyke;
Bulldike; Bulldagger; Butch
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homosexual
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Hacker; Cracker; Phreak/Phone Phreak
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technology enthusiast or computer programmer
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Ecofreak; Tree-hugger; Whale-smoocher; Greenie
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zealous environmentalist or conservationist
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Stinkpot
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mean or nasty person [from the combustible container of
suffocating vapors]
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Basket-case; Samovar; Curling Stone; Tadpole
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multiple amputee; incapacitated or dysfunctional; impaired
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They/Them; You People
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not us; We People
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Insider; In-Group
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we, us; not
out-group; not outsider
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"All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend
to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the
English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this
from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any
foreign race, they invent an insulting nickname for it."
by Eric Arthur Blair ["Charles Dickens" Inside the
Whale and Other Essays by George Orwell (1940)]
It should be noted that, in almost every case, a peoples' name
for themselves translates into something like the real
people or the true people, or even the people
who make sense when they talk, in order to differentiate
themselves from their neighbors and strangers; thus reserving
denigrating or disparaging, derogating or depreciating
appellations for others.
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