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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
How to be offensive, in case you forgot.
Today, while searching for pictures of Tony Gubba (for an animation which will appear soon), I stumbled upon a list of ethnic slurs on wikipedia. It truly is fascinating stuff.
Did you know that the Austrailians referred to the Viet Cong as "Nigel", rather than "Charlie"? (I was a PFC on a search patrol, hunting Nigel down. It was in the jungle wars of '65.)
"Eskimo" is offensive?
"Honky" was derived from an African-American pronunciation of "hunky", the disparaging term for a Hungarian laborer?
And finally, that "Gubba" is an Aboriginal pejorative term for white people? (not just the sandy haired clowns).