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August 16th, 2013 | #1 |
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Non-White Terms for Whites
Learned these today, they are Hindi terms:
chutiya - means fucker. Just fyi. According to someone on twitter: Sathya Anand @AgentSaffron 5h @AlexLinder5 'Gora' or 'firangi' refer to Whites. But they aren't slurs exactly though not used in polite conversation |
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"Wai guo ren" - Mandarin for 'foreign (outside country) person' (-ren is the suffix for 'person', so 'Meiguo ren' for American, 'Aodaliya ren' for Australian...). However, this usually applies to 'Westerners', people of European descent, and not, say, Japanese people (who most Chinese hate far more than they hate any Westerner) or other ethnic Asians.
It isn't, as far as I can tell, derogatory. "Lao wai" - also means, 'foreigner' ('old foreigner'), although this is a bit more ... informal. Usually used by young people to any non-Chinese (especially 'Western') person older than themselves. I'm unsure how derogatory or not this is. It's worth mentioning that two words including the 'lao-' prefix, 'lao shi' and 'lao ban', ('teacher' and 'boss', or more accurately, 'proprietor'), both use the lao- prefix to indicate respect (teachers are respected in Chinese culture, although I really should say 'Han culture', and likewise for business owners.) "Yang gui zi" - "foreign devil", although I've most often heard it applied to Japanese than Westerners. Basically, someone who goes to China to do bad things to the locals. "Gwai lo" - Cantonese (southern Chinese language) for 'ghost man', as in, not really a person. This is highly derogatory. Last edited by M.N. Dalvez; August 18th, 2013 at 07:27 PM. |
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As for 'chudhiya' and 'madachudh' and 'bahinchudh' ('motherfucker' and 'sister-fucker', respectively), they don't really have anything to do with the race of the target, they're just general highly insulting terms.
I learned a bit of Hindi abuse to properly address the chudhiya who always seem to want to call the house when we're just sitting down to eat dinner; the above, gandu (arsehole), suvr (pig), kuttiya (bitch - for the 'ladies' ) ... Last edited by M.N. Dalvez; August 17th, 2013 at 12:28 PM. |
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The term 'gora' has two relevant associations. Quote:
W Gora (clan) Following many hyperlinks on those pages the common factor is north-east India and modern Pakistan which would be considered the home of the Indian branch of Aryans and all that that implies. Gora (racial_epithet) #G Quote:
The term 'firangi' ... Quote:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/firangi Quote:
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