(November 2, 2016 at 5:51 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 2, 2016 at 5:48 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: About the only word more racist toward Asians than "slant-eye" is "gook."
Yeah, well, we don't have that one in German. Slit or Slant eye however is of the same quality as Nigger in english.
"Gook" is on par with "nigger" in English. Likely from the same type of origin, too. Where "nigger" is a bastardization of the word "negro," "gook" may be a bastardization of a Korean word, as per Wikipedia's explanation of a couple of possible origins for the word:
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- That when American servicemen heard the term during the Korean war, they heard the word as 'gook" instead of k(g)uk which means "national" (maybe, thus, interpreted as nationalist) goo-goo (also gugu), a term used by the US military to describe Filipinos.[4]
- That "gook" comes from the Korean word "국" (guk), meaning "country",[7] "한국" (hanguk), meaning "Korea", or "미국" (miguk), meaning "America".[8] For example, American soldiers might have heard locals saying miguk, referring to Americans, and misinterpreted this as "Me gook."[9] It should be noted that "Mỹ Quốc"[10] is an archaism in Vietnamese that died out due to a language shift, starting from just before the Indochina Wars and culminating with the end of that period often referred to as the Vietnam War, which has the same root and similar pronunciation to Korean "미국" (miguk) both stemming from Chinese characters "美國"(Měiguó) also meaning "America."
Both equally racist; both equally offensive. So is "slant-eye."
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