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2005-12-09 Down Under

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Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-09 12:30|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What exactly is a "wog"?

Posted by BH 2005-12-09 14:36|| 2005-12-09 14:36|| Front Page Top

#2 The Wiki is fairly accurate:

"...British racial term originating in the colonial period of the British Empire. It was generally used as a label for the natives of India, North Africa and the Middle East. By the 1950s it had become a pejorative term used in order to offend.

The origins of the term are unclear. Most dictionaries say "wog" either possibly or likely derives from the generic term golliwog after the Golliwogg, a "grotesque" blackface minstrel doll-character from a children's book published in 1895. Various facetious explanations include the claim that it originated from acronyms for "Worthy/Wily Oriental Gentleman" or variants thereof, or for "Workers of Government" or "Wards of Government", used to refer to early immigrants into the United Kingdom. Such attempts to explain the word's origin are apocryphal at best and have no foundation in fact.

The use of the word is discouraged in Britain, and most dictionaries refer to the word with the caution that it is slang, derogatory, and offensive. James Robertson & Sons, a British manufacturer of jams and preserves, discontinued use of the Golliwog as its trademark in the early 1990s for similar reasons. It is generally considered unwise to use it in modern Britain without expecting an extreme reaction.

The phrase "The wogs start at Calais" is commonly used to characterise a stodgy Europhobic viewpoint, and more generally the view that Britain (more commonly England) is inherently separate from (and superior to) the Continent. In this case, "wog" describes any foreign, un-English person." (Wiki ends)

However, Americans, North and South are never referred to as "wogs", because of the British recognition of the extreme sensititivity Americans have to racial issues. i.e., they might get their nose broken.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-12-09 15:33|| 2005-12-09 15:33|| Front Page Top

#3 And don't forget WOGettes.....

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-12-09 15:50|| 2005-12-09 15:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I hate how the Muslims perpetrate attacks and then when the retribution comes its racist or imperealist and the LLL's media and ilk just eat it up like candy. Erhhrh

two incidents in the past week. Two lifeguards were attacked by Wogs last Sunday and there was a brawl later in the week in which youths turned on a media crew

Why dont anyone ask this Wog Leb whatever what he thinks of the guys who did these attacks?? Will he condem them and appologize and instead of crying racist crapola stand up and complain about how a minority in his community ruin it for the good muslims. Tell the reporter that he and his group instead of crying about racism is going to go out and find them then turnover that minority that is making them look bad and suffer.

Posted by C-Low 2005-12-09 15:50|| 2005-12-09 15:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks, moose.

Posted by BH 2005-12-09 15:54|| 2005-12-09 15:54|| Front Page Top

#6 In disfavor now due to lack of precision, the term doesn't discriminate enough between Arabs, Pakistanis and Chineese. More precise words have been made available thru the Amazing Anglo-Saxon Cussing Labs. Consult your local street corner.

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-09 16:22|| 2005-12-09 16:22|| Front Page Top

#7 A wog is someone who identifiably 'foreign' in looks, dress or speech. An American wouldn't be a wog becuase a funny accent isn't enough to qualify. It has nothing to do with American sensitivity to race issues.

BTW, the media has been dancing around this issue for several days. They can't come out and say what the problem is or that Arabs are causing it, yet still vaguely allude to an ethnic dimension and vaguely blame 'native' Australians for the problem'.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2005-12-09 18:13|| 2005-12-09 18:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Lebanese youth leader Fadi Rahman told The Weekend Australian yesterday that many young people in his community were beginning to wonder if they would ever feel as though they belonged in Australia

perhaps if you dropped the "Lebanese", idjit. Unassimilated, yet stomping their little feet and demanding everyone else not judge them? FOAD

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-09 18:33|| 2005-12-09 18:33|| Front Page Top

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