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Entry Inclusion Guidelines Each entry in the List of Ethnic Slurs must have a citation, or it will be removed or moved to the #Quarantine section. Entries that include a wikilink to an article on that slur, with a citation in that article (referring to the slur, not to some other sense of the word) may stay on the list, but including the citation in both places would be better. Only ethnic slurs are allowed, including race and nationality along with ethnicity. Other slurs belong at List of regional nicknames, List of religious slurs, or in similar lists. For the sake of having a rule, Muslim turbans are considered religious, and Jews are both a religion and an ethnicity. Non-English slurs may be included, but any definition or description of such terms must be provided in English, as with all descriptive editorial content on English Wikipedia. Any pertinent excerpts from sources which are directly quoted should be translated into English. The purpose of this guideline is to prevent vandals from adding joke entries we can't disprove, and to prevent endless cycles of re-adding and re-deleting the same slurs due to disagreement on what belongs on the list. Please don't make major changes to this guideline without getting a consensus on the talk page. |
While derogatory, "Orc" doesn't seem to be based on ethnicity. It's a term targeted at any soldier who is under the employ of the Russian Federation, not any soldier who happens to be ethnically Rus. It comes off as equivalent to claiming that calling a police officer who happens to be white a "pig" is a racial slur against Caucasians, which--while an extremely derogatory term--"pig" isn't. MechanoidWarhead (talk) 20:42, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
It was a slur like the N word but used to discribe first nations people 137.186.18.199 (talk) 14:48, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Perhaps that makes it merely, an insult. It could be on another list, along with "dirty rat". Drsruli (talk) 01:03, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The sources used for this article are strange, and don't even cite many of the terms as a slur. 'Russkie' for example is only described in Lexico as 'informal, derogatory', is that enough to qualify as a slur? Many other sources state it is a term to describe an ethnic Russian without any negative subtext PrecariousWorlds (talk) 19:43, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
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when i was a kid i was called "street shitter" in elementary school on a very consistent basis, and i feel incredibly misrepresented by it not being in this page. honestly its not too important to me, but it would make me feel a lot better (i am south asian and was consistently bullied on the basis of race, my username is not my name i wanna clarify)
if u do choose to include this, please include the following informations Term: Street Shitter Location of Origin: (tbh idk, but im canadian, so maybe North America?) Targets: South Asians Meaning, Origin and Notes: honestly im alright with this beign left blank, i dont really feel like more notes have to be added, the idea of typing them feels sorta racist Joe Walburg 24 (talk) 21:48, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
that’s literally it 2600:1002:B008:EF3B:8112:ED72:4ECF:E7EB (talk) 20:23, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
"Schluchtenscheißer" does not mean 'person shitting in a cave' but 'person shitting in a ravine'.
"Schlucht f (genitive Schlucht, plural Schluchten or (poetic) Schlüchte) canyon, chasm, gorge, ravine"
[1]
The german word for 'cave' is instead 'Höhle' and has no relation to 'Schlucht'(singular of 'Schluchten'). [2]
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Im not sure as to why Neechie & various spellings thereof is added as a slur. I see the citation there, but i can see the source from which it originayes was made by two non-Native Americans who obviously do not know the context of this word.
I'm a Cree Native American & I speak Cree. "Neechie" is a word in both Cree (& Ojibwe) that stems from the word "Nicîwakân" which means "my friend", and obviously traditionally was used in the contexts of friendship & comradery before the introduction of the English language, and then later shortened in its slang form to still mean the same thing.
Neechie is solely used as an affectionate term between friends & particularly Native Americans: it gained popularity amongst other tribes later & is now also used as a term for other Native Americans as a show of comradery & friendship amongst tribes, but its basically used only between Native Americans because nobody else would know what it means (& so there is no use in using it for them).
Neechie is not and has never ever been used as a slur, or a derogatory term, and most non Native Americans don't even know what it means (& slurs are exonymys, so how could it be a slur if the word doesn't even mean anything derogatory, & outside groups didn't come up with it, and don't even know what it means?). The only way I can assume people thought this was a slur was because of that book, and the authors of that book added it because they were ignorant of Native American culture, saw a word amongst Native Americans beginning with "N" that means "friend", and assumed it must be the same as the N word for Black Americans. Ask any Native American (& particularly any Ojibwe or Cree) & they'll tell you this word is not & has never been a slur, has not ever been used to refer to people in a derogatory way, & has never been anything close to even being a swear word or a bad word. Artisticthunderbird (talk) 20:55, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Should be considered an ethnic slur for Israeli Jews. It's especially used by people who hate Israel and Israeli people in place of their nationality and it fundamentally reduces the mere being Israeli, living in Israel and not wanting to leave the country you were born in to belonging to a political ideology and historical movement. 2.38.205.185 (talk) 15:48, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
How the word is used 'internally' is not the point, the point is how it's used by haters. The word 'Jew' itself is itself inoffensive but can have a certain negative connotation. Stop being disingenuous. --93.67.212.32 (talk) 22:36, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Any noun can be used as an insult depending on context. What we seek to list here are words that are used to insult a person's ethnic that are culturally significant enough to be mentioned as a slur in a WP:reliable source that is not presenting a WP:fringe view. Webster's] and the OED do not mention it being a slur, nor do they present it as being an ethnic. You are welcome to peruse the over four thousand dictionaries at archive.org that mention "Zionist", but I did not see any suitable citation at a glance. The article Zionism and wiktionary:Zionist makes no mention of this being a slur. I do not see any mention of it in Anti-Zionism nor Criticism of Israel nor Antisemitism. I do not see sufficient reason to include it. To say there are people using a word to insult other people is insufficient criteria to be included on this list. That is a form of WP:OR and/or an attempt use Wikipedia to WP:right great wrongs. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 22:33, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
En Wikipedia has the article Kanak people which descibes the ethnic group who has used the word as a self-denomination for centuries. (please pardon my bad English, i am de-N). --2003:6:33AE:3D79:887:3A2:56E9:9524 (talk) 09:54, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
At least in the Spanish speaking side of Latin America, gringo is not a slur. We simply do not refer to people from the USA as “americans” since we consider the entirety of the continent to be America. Gringo is a lot shorter than Estadounidense and much less of a mouth-full, but it ultimately means the same. AsuMadreDeCiudades (talk) 01:13, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Seems a bit short, the talk page is active but not THAT active. Request extending it. Drsruli (talk) 01:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
I think the description of this word could be improved.
The article lists this as being a slur used by Dutch speakers and then elaborates on some other uses. I think the use by southerners against northerners and the use by people outside the US against people from the US should be their own categories, as these are two different meanings, similar to how other words are divided when they are used in different places to mean different things. Whether it counts as an ethnic slur specifically is probably up for debate, but assuming it should be here I think it could be better.
Its also odd to only explicitly cite Latin America as a use against US Americans when this is used almost everywhere to my knowledge.
(as an aside, I think 'People from the United States' is more correct than 'Americans' to describe the targets and words like Пиндос(pindos) should also be described this way)
I might rewrite this as:
Targets: People from the United States
First applied by the Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam to Connecticuters and then to other residents of New England, 'Yankee' and derived terms like the Spanish yanqui or Japanese yankī are used internationally, often mockingly, to refer to Americans and American influence. The phrase "Yankee go home" has been used as a slogan against American imperialism in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. Most linguists agree that the origin is Dutch, possibly from Janke ("Johnny") or a dialectical variant of Jan Kaas ("John Cheese").
Targets: Northerners of the United States
Used in the American Civil War by Confederates as a derisive term for northerners, the term is still used today in the United States as an informal and sometimes pejorative word for people from the northeast, particularly New England.
I am new to contributing to Wikipedia so I won't make these edits myself on a page that I imagine is fairly contested, but if people agree with my changes I will work on tracking down references. Cyrusabyrd (talk) 08:09, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
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I will add few ethic slurs used in Mongolia. Since Russian invasion of Ukraine, people of Mongolia have divided into two parts, those who supports Russia or US. People use these slurs to fight against each other over social media mostly on ikon.mn : 1. Орк(Ork) used by Mongolians against Russians 2. Анусник(Anusnik) used by Mongolians against US 3. Хуяа(Khuya) used by Mongolians against Chinese 4. Уяа/Укр(Uya/Ukr) used by Mongolians against Ukrainian 5. Балиар нус (Baliar nus) this word is pronounced almost the same as the country name Belarus, used by Mongolians against Belarus MunkhOrgil13 (talk) 08:30, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Finnish slur against swedish people 2001:14BA:4ACB:4200:29F9:D505:D818:261F (talk) 05:49, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
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I would like to expand this directory by add a new word in it. The contents are as follows:
Term - Brishiters Origin - South Asia (Especially India & Pakistan) Targets - British People Notes - Used by mostly by English speaking people of the subcontinent. The term is widely used for mainland Britishers. The term is quiet common & frequent on internet. The Maelstorm 40K (talk) 11:56, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
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Add "Cornstarch Crusader" to W as a slur to white people Wikihowvillian (talk) 17:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Pilak is a term used in the Sabah region of Malaysia to refer to illegal settlers of (especially) southern Philippine origin. It is not usually an ethnic slur in the sense that it does not specifically refer to a single ethnicity, but since the settlers are usually of Tausug or Bajau Pelauh ethnicity, it can be considered an ethnic slur.
The term originates from the Tausug word for silver/money. It was likely created by the native Kadazandusuns as a pejorative.
Its usage is well documented in scientific literature:
[1]https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/context/wacana/article/1366/viewcontent/v13_i1_n05.pdf
[2]https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1355/9789814951692-009/pdf?licenseType=restricted
[3]https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-90417-3.pdf AnderGapoh (talk) 03:27, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
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Term:Bangaalhi Location or Origin: Maldivians Targets: Bengalis Meaning, origin, and notes: The Dhivehi denonym used for Bengalis (Dhivehi:ބަންގާޅި) went on to be used as a slur by Maldivians of the modern generation. Maldiviancountryball (talk) 14:20, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
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Addition of slur:
Pilak
Targeted ethnicities: Bajau, Tausug peoples, other Filipino migrants[1]
Languages: Kadazandusun, Sabahan Malay, Tausug.[2]
Etymology: From the Tausug word pilak (money, silver). [3] Cognate with Kadazandusun pirok[4], piok[5], and Malay perak.[6]
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Contextual usage (in Sabahan Malay):
An example from the Facebook page Gerakan Anti Pilak Zon Keningau (Keningau Zone Anti-pilak Movement):
https://www.facebook.com/100079654122369/posts/731936633525969/
A heated blogpost from 2011:
https://jarimerdeka.blogspot.com/2011/10/pilak-bumiputera-mau-cabar-dusun.html AnderGapoh (talk) 19:25, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
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“Oriental” is an offensive slur used to describe East Asians and South East Asians. It offensively refers to someone from the orient. Bigbotnot2 (talk) 20:32, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Oriental has been used for many centuries to not only denote someone from the far east but also used as an derogatory, offensive term. Thus, I wish to request this be added to the slur list. Bigbotnot2 (talk) 14:23, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
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Add "ginger" as a slur against red-haired individuals JackRygelski (talk) 03:57, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
In Texas both Bohunk and Polack are used by people themselves of descent from Bohemia and Poland, and they are significant immigrant groups to Texas. This shows up in names of businesses, especially for food products such as sausages sold to the public.
I am unsure how to update this page to reflect the nuances among immigration areas of the US from Bohemia and Poland. The words Bohunk and Polack have no negative connotation in Texas, and are often positive. 2600:1700:D00:CF40:C218:4FFA:19CA:CA18 (talk) 22:07, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
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Add the word Chigga that is used against Black Chinese people. SahalIqbal (talk) 13:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
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About the word Lapp: Add also that Lappland is the most northern county of Sweden. Diktor (talk) 19:37, 1 July 2024 (UTC)