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Post by tonynatuzzi on Dec 27, 2005 22:46:43 GMT -5
Offensive ethnic term to describe Americans of German and English descent unlike for White ethnic Americans where you have Kike for the Jews,Guinea for the Italians,Pollak for the Poles,Mick for the Irish,Dago for the Portuguese and the Spaniards,etc but there has never been a term invented to offend the Germans and the English.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 27, 2005 22:47:09 GMT -5
Honkeys for WASP's, squarejaws/krauts/Huns for Germans. And of course Americans love to call Germans "Nazis."
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Dec 27, 2005 22:49:14 GMT -5
Yeah but honkey applies to all White Americans not just those who's ancestors came from Great Britain and Germany, I am talking about a term aimed strictly at English Americans and German Americans only.
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Dec 27, 2005 22:51:45 GMT -5
Mike The Jedi what were your Greek ancestors called when they first came to America.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 27, 2005 22:52:38 GMT -5
Well, why would WASP's invent a term that insults themselves? Add squarehead to the list for Germans, as well. Mike The Jedi what were your Greek ancestors called when they first came to America. I have not a clue. There aren't many anti-Greek ethnic slurs I know of (in fact I don't know any), because let's face it, Greeks aren't imporant enough to have their own slur.
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Post by aroundtheworld on Dec 27, 2005 22:53:36 GMT -5
I hear Brits referred to as "fags" and "queer" alot but it's not general enough to be classified.
My guess is b/c they are dominant cultures.
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Post by Crimson Guard on Dec 27, 2005 22:54:55 GMT -5
Sure their is!
"Kraut" for a german
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"Limy" for an englishman
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 27, 2005 22:55:51 GMT -5
Yes, there are plenty of insulting terms aimed at Germans and Englishmen, but I think Tony wants slurs against their AMERICAN counterparts. But I don't think any exist.
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Post by Crimson Guard on Dec 27, 2005 22:58:22 GMT -5
They called them that here aswel
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Dec 27, 2005 22:59:48 GMT -5
Mike the Jedi since most Greeks can pass for Italians I bet the Anglo Saxons just called your ancestors the same offensive terms that they called my ancestors.
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Post by byz on Dec 27, 2005 23:04:02 GMT -5
In Aus during the 50's and 60's they would would love to tell Greeks to, "go home".
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 27, 2005 23:08:35 GMT -5
True about the WASP's just recycling their terminology for Italians. I mean, it's not like bigots actually have the brain capacity to think about the accuracy of their insults. That's why they're bigots. Wog suffices as a derogatory term for Greeks, even if it's just a generic anti-Mediterranean or anti-brunet Caucasoid word. Wikipedia has a good collection of ethnic slurs. I looked up the ones for Greeks. Let's see, there's "boy lover," an obvious reference to the Greek homosexuality stereotype, there's "bubble," which is short for "bubble and squeak," Cockney rhyming slang for "Greek," and then there's malakas (which I find more affectionate than offensive). And that's about it. Kinda disappointing we're not considered worthy of great widespread insults like "wop" or "dago."
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Post by Crimson Guard on Dec 27, 2005 23:09:54 GMT -5
Also through in Blueblood,Johnny Reb and Yankee for a little inner-white amerincan slurs.
You guys act like certain groups got away from being slurred,lol. None did,they did it to eachother. ;D
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Dec 27, 2005 23:27:24 GMT -5
Mike maybe the reason Greek immgrants in America never got their own ethnic slur is because not that many Greeks came to America in the first place compared to other European ethnic groups who came in the millions.Wasn't the number of Greeks who immigrated to America in the very low hundred thousands.
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Post by Jack Reed on Dec 28, 2005 0:26:59 GMT -5
They called them Krauts. WASP is often used by Med supremacists to insult Americans of superior Northern European stock. ;-) (j/k)
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