Names of Foreigners or Foes
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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
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Inuit or Eskimo [Huskemaw/Uskemaw]; also burly or brawny [cf:
stout]
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Eskimo; Sko/Skimo
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Inuit; Yupik; Inupiat; Aleut; native Alaskan
(allegedly derived from "eater of raw meat", but actually
transferred from Micmac [Esqimawe] meaning 'snowshoe netter')
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Kabloonuk
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any non-native Alaskan (non-Eskimo, non-Inuit; non-Yupik;
non-Inupiat; non-Aleut) [deriv: person with bushy eyebrows]
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Cheechako
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any newly arrived Alaskan or northern Canadian ("Northlander"),
being a tenderfoot or greenhorn [deriv: newcomer]
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Lapp; Laplander
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any transnational Sami/Saami; ethnic minority in northern Europe
and Russia near the Baltic, White, and Berents seas [patchwork]
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Crow; Raven; Blackbird
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Absaroka
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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 [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
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enemies/little snakes [from Ojibwa for Dakota/Lakota]
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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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Cannibal [anthropophagi/anthropoghagia]
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Carib [Galibi, Caríbal]; Arawak
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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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Noisy
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Tapage/Tapago [Pawnee]
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Tobacco Nation
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Wyandot [Tionontati] with Huron [Wendat]
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Pawnee Picts
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Wichita [French: Panis piqués] for tattoos
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Siwash
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savage [French: sauvage] for AmerIndians
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Indian; Red Indian; Redskin
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native American; AmerIndian; aborigine; autochthon; native
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Indio
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native MesoAmerican or Filipino [cf: Spanish criollo]
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Metis/Métis
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mixed-race or half-breed, especially French and Indian ancestry
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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
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mixed-race offspring of miscegenation, especially of
indeterminate breeding; stunted or inferior
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Bastard
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illegitimate issue of unmarried parents
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Mestizo
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mixed-race native MesoAmerican or Filipino [cf: Spanish criollo]
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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
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Hispanic; Latino/Latina; Mexican-American; Spanish-American;
Chicano/Chicana
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Wetback; Iceback
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illegal immigrant or unauthorized guest worker,
especially into the United States from Latin America or Canada
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Gringo
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non-Hispanic foreigner in Latin America
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WASP; Whitey; Paleface; Fish-belly; White Bread; Bolillo; Ivory;
Pigmently-challenged; Melanin Deficient; Haole; Ofay/Fay;
Cracker; Honky; Hillbilly; Hill Jack; Peckerwood; Redneck; White
Trash; Trailer Park Trash; Mister Charlie; The Man; Yakoo
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant; Caucasian; Aryan
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Skunk; High-Yellow
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mulatto; quadroon; octoroon
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Spook; Smoke; Spear-chucker; Bro/Brother; Homeboy/Homey; Ebony;
Blood; Dinge; Shade; Darky; Spade; Shine; Brownie; Boogie; Coon;
Americoon; Africoon; Buck; Jungle Bunny; Nappy; Afro; Brillo;
Cotton Ball; Cotton-picker; Lawn Jockey; Porch Monkey; Yard Ape;
8-Ball; Kaffir; Jig/Jigga/Jigaboo; Billy Reuben (bilirubin) [Thai
"farang dum" = black foreigner]
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Black; Negro; Creole; Afro-American; Colored Person
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Mau Mau
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member of Gikuyu/Kikuyu terrorist society in Kenya
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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
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Arabic/Islamic male [from kaffiyeh, turban]
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Bint; Bint-Laden; Black Moving Object /BMO; Black Pillar Box;
Batman; Beekeeper; Pajama Mamma
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Arabic/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/Islamic person
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Muzzie; Hajji/Hadji
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Mussulman/Muslim; Muhammadan; Islamite or Islamizer
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Paki; Pac Man; Gunga Din
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Pakistani or other south Asian, especially a 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 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; Squarehead
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WWI/WWII German soldier [blockhead]
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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
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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
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Italian (from "swaggerer" [guappo] for a pimp, ruffian, or
worthless person)
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Dago
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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; compare haole]
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Manihini
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visitor to Tahiti; guest [derived from bird; compare 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
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Japanese [from Chinese for marauding]
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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 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
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Viet Cong [from phonetic alphabet]
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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
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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 A/NZ]
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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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unknown; unconnected; unacquainted
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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
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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
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non-white non-European foreigner
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Firange; Ferengi; Firanji
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white European foreigner [India]
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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
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Foreign Devil 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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someone of Jewish religion or 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; 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; Ponce; Queer; $3 Bill; Cocksucker; 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;
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; Punk; Pederast; Homo;
Homophile; Lesbian; Lez; Lezzie; Lezbo; Sapphist; Sapphomorph;
Morphodite; Morphodyke; Tribads/Tribades; Fricatrice;
Confricatrice; Rubster; Clitty Kitty; Femme; 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
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not us
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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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