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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Derogatory and racially offensive word</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/WOG_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="WOG (disambiguation)">WOG (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p> <i><b>Wog</b></i> is a racial slur used to refer, in <a href="/wiki/British_English" title="British English">British English</a>, to black and <a href="/wiki/South_Asian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="South Asian people">South Asian people</a>, and, in <a href="/wiki/Australian_English" title="Australian English">Australian English</a>, to people from the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean region">Mediterranean region</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guard_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guard-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whilst it is extremely derogatory in British English, in Australian English it may be considered non-offensive depending on how the word is used, due to <a href="/wiki/Reappropriation" title="Reappropriation">reclamation</a> and changing connotations.<sup id="cite_ref-Guard_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guard-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, it has usually been employed against people of black and <a href="/wiki/Desi" title="Desi">Desi</a> origin or descent and <a href="/wiki/Maritime_Southeast_Asia" title="Maritime Southeast Asia">maritime Southeast Asia</a> and less typically to North Africans and those from the Middle East. It is generally considered similar to other racially abusive terms such as <i><a href="/wiki/Dago_(slur)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dago (slur)">dago</a></i> for Italians and Spaniards, <a href="/wiki/Frog" title="Frog">frog</a> for the French, <i><a href="/wiki/Spic" title="Spic">spic</a></i> for Hispanic and Latin American people or <i><a href="/wiki/Wop" title="Wop">wop</a></i> for <a href="/wiki/Italians" title="Italians">Italians</a>. </p><p>In Australia, <i>wog</i> mostly refers to people from the Mediterranean region and to Australians from the Mediterranean region. This includes <a href="/wiki/Southern_Europe" title="Southern Europe">Southern European</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Europe" title="Southeast Europe">Southeast European</a> or <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle Eastern</a> ethnicity, descent, and appearance, such as <a href="/wiki/Italian_Australians" title="Italian Australians">Italians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greek_Australians" title="Greek Australians">Greeks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lebanese_Australians" title="Lebanese Australians">Lebanese</a>. The slur became widely diffused in Australia with an increase in immigration from Southern Europe and the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, and the term expanded to include all immigrants from the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. These new arrivals were perceived by the majority population as contrasting with the larger predominant <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Celtic_Australians" title="Anglo-Celtic Australians">Anglo-Celtic Australian</a> people. In contemporary times, the word has lost some of its negative connotations in Australia in certain contexts due to <a href="/wiki/Reappropriation" title="Reappropriation">reappropriation</a> by the intended targets of the slur, though this is still considered a point of controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-Guard_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guard-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The origin of the term is unclear. It was first noted by lexicographer F.C. Bowen in 1929, in his <i>Sea Slang: a dictionary of the old-timers’ expressions and epithets</i>, where he defines wogs as "lower class <a href="/wiki/Babu_(title)" title="Babu (title)">Babu</a> shipping clerks on the Indian coast."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many dictionaries<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Your_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Your-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> say "wog" probably derives from the <a href="/wiki/Golliwog" title="Golliwog">golliwog</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Blackface" title="Blackface">blackface</a> <a href="/wiki/Minstrel_show" title="Minstrel show">minstrel</a> doll character from a children's book, <i>The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg</i> by <a href="/wiki/Florence_Kate_Upton" title="Florence Kate Upton">Florence Kate Upton</a>, published in 1895; or from <i><a href="/wiki/Pollywog" class="mw-redirect" title="Pollywog">pollywog</a></i>, a dialect term for <a href="/wiki/Tadpole" title="Tadpole">tadpole</a> that is used in maritime circles to indicate someone who has not <a href="/wiki/Line-crossing_ceremony" title="Line-crossing ceremony">crossed the equator</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Your_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Your-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Suggestions that the word is an <a href="/wiki/Acronym" title="Acronym">acronym</a> for "wily Oriental gentleman", "western orientated gentleman" "working on government service", or similar, are perhaps examples of <a href="/wiki/False_etymology" title="False etymology">false etymology</a> or <a href="/wiki/Backronym" title="Backronym">backronyms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use_in_British_English">Use in British English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Use in British English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Wog", in its modern usage in the UK, is a derogatory and racially offensive slang word referring to a dark skinned person, including people from the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a>, and other parts of <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/East_Indies" title="East Indies">East Indies</a>, but usually not those from the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> area or <a href="/wiki/Southern_Europe" title="Southern Europe">Southern Europe</a>. Historically, the term also encompassed Southern Europeans and other such people with slightly darker skin tone than ethnically British people.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> A similar term, <i><a href="/wiki/Wop" title="Wop">wop</a></i>, has historically been used to refer to Italians in both Britain and the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. </p><p>The saying, "The wogs begin at <a href="/wiki/Calais" title="Calais">Calais</a>", which implies that everyone who is not British is a wog, appears to date from the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> but was popularised by <a href="/wiki/George_Wigg,_Baron_Wigg" class="mw-redirect" title="George Wigg, Baron Wigg">George Wigg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">MP</a> for <a href="/wiki/Dudley" title="Dudley">Dudley</a>, in 1949 when in a parliamentary debate concerning the <a href="/wiki/Bamar" class="mw-redirect" title="Bamar">Burmese</a>, Wigg shouted at the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> benches, "The Honourable Gentleman and his friends think they are all 'wogs'. Indeed, the Right Honourable Member for <a href="/wiki/Woodford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Woodford (UK Parliament constituency)">Woodford</a> [i.e., <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>] thinks that the 'wogs' begin at Calais."<sup id="cite_ref-George_Wigg_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-George_Wigg-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As reported by <a href="/wiki/British_Jews" title="British Jews">English-Jewish</a> journalist <a href="/wiki/Linda_Grant" title="Linda Grant">Linda Grant</a>, people in England have referred to <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> and <a href="/wiki/Israelis" title="Israelis">Israelis</a> as "wogs", as well.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1969, the term was used on official police paperwork by <a href="/wiki/Leeds_City_Police" title="Leeds City Police">Leeds City Police</a> officers to describe the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_British" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian British">Nigerian British</a> man <a href="/wiki/Death_of_David_Oluwale" title="Death of David Oluwale">David Oluwale</a>; two officers were later found guilty of his assault and are also believed <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (September 2023)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> to be responsible for his death. This inspired the title of Kester Aspden's book on the case, <i>Nationality: Wog, The Hounding of David Oluwale</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yep_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yep-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Series 1 Episode 6 of <i><a href="/wiki/Fawlty_Towers" title="Fawlty Towers">Fawlty Towers</a></i>, "<a href="/wiki/The_Germans" title="The Germans">The Germans</a>", Major Gowen specifies "wog" as meaning any person from India when speaking to <a href="/wiki/Basil_Fawlty" title="Basil Fawlty">Basil Fawlty</a> about the India vs England cricket game at <a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use_in_Australian_English">Use in Australian English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Use in Australian English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Australia, the term "wog" refers to residents of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Europe" title="Southern Europe">Southern European</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Europe" title="Southeast Europe">Southeast European</a> or <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle Eastern</a> ethnicity and/or appearance. The slur became widely diffused with an increase in immigration from <a href="/wiki/Southern_Europe" title="Southern Europe">Southern Europe</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> and the term expanded to include immigrants from the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean region">Mediterranean region</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>. These new arrivals were perceived by the majority population as contrasting with the larger predominant <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Celtic_Australian" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Celtic Australian">Anglo-Celtic Australian</a> culture. </p><p>Today, "wog" is used particularly in places in Australia with substantial numbers of Southern European Australians, as well as non-European Middle Eastern populations, such as in <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>. As with other slang and profanity used in contemporary <a href="/wiki/Australian_English" title="Australian English">Australian English</a>, the term "wog" may be employed either aggressively or affectionately in different contexts. </p><p>In Australian English, "wog" can also be used as a slang word for an illness such as a <a href="/wiki/Common_cold" title="Common cold">common cold</a> or <a href="/wiki/Influenza" title="Influenza">influenza</a>, as in: "I'm coming down with a wog". Such usage is not perceived as derogatory.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_popular_culture_2">In popular culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Car_with_personalised_plate_celebrating_being_a_Wog.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Car_with_personalised_plate_celebrating_being_a_Wog.jpg/220px-Car_with_personalised_plate_celebrating_being_a_Wog.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Car_with_personalised_plate_celebrating_being_a_Wog.jpg/330px-Car_with_personalised_plate_celebrating_being_a_Wog.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Car_with_personalised_plate_celebrating_being_a_Wog.jpg/440px-Car_with_personalised_plate_celebrating_being_a_Wog.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2143" data-file-height="1664" /></a><figcaption>A personalised licence plate making light of the term, referencing the film <i>The Wog Boy</i></figcaption></figure> <p>More recently, Southern European-Australian performing artists have taken ownership of the term "wog", defusing its original pejorative nature. The popular 1980s stage show <i><a href="/wiki/Wogs_Out_of_Work" title="Wogs Out of Work">Wogs Out of Work</a></i>, created by <a href="/wiki/Nick_Giannopoulos" title="Nick Giannopoulos">Nick Giannopoulos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Palomares" title="Simon Palomares">Simon Palomares</a>, and its sequel <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Who_Let_the_Wogs_Out%3F&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Who Let the Wogs Out? (page does not exist)">Who Let the Wogs Out?</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are early examples. The original production was followed on television with <i><a href="/wiki/Acropolis_Now" title="Acropolis Now">Acropolis Now</a></i>, starring Giannopoulos, Palomares, George Kapiniaris and Mary Coustas, and films such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wog_Boy" title="The Wog Boy">The Wog Boy</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Wog_Boy_2:_Kings_of_Mykonos" title="Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos">Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos</a></i>, and parodies such as those of <a href="/wiki/Santo_Cilauro" title="Santo Cilauro">Santo Cilauro</a> (Italian), <a href="/wiki/Eric_Bana" title="Eric Bana">Eric Bana</a> (Croatian-German), <a href="/wiki/Vince_Colosimo" title="Vince Colosimo">Vince Colosimo</a> (Italian), Nick Giannopoulos (Greek), Frank Lotito (Italian), <a href="/wiki/Mary_Coustas" title="Mary Coustas">Mary Coustas</a> (Greek), comedy duo <i><a href="/wiki/Superwog" title="Superwog">Superwog</a></i> (Egyptian and Greek), comedy troupe <a href="/wiki/Sooshi_Mango" title="Sooshi Mango">Sooshi Mango</a> (Italian) and <a href="/wiki/SBS_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="SBS Television">SBS Television</a>'s offbeat <i><a href="/wiki/Pizza_(TV_series)" title="Pizza (TV series)">Pizza</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Fenech" title="Paul Fenech">Paul Fenech</a> (Maltese) and later <i><a href="/wiki/Here_Come_the_Habibs" title="Here Come the Habibs">Here Come the Habibs</a></i>. TV series have continued this change in <a href="/wiki/Australian_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian culture">Australian cultural history</a>—with some even classifying a genre of "wogsploitation" of pop culture products being created by and for a proudly "wog" market. More recently, a popular production, '<a href="/wiki/Superwog" title="Superwog">Superwog</a>' - created by Theodore and Nathan Saidden - has begun streaming on the <a href="/wiki/ABC_Television_(Australian_TV_network)" title="ABC Television (Australian TV network)">Australian Broadcasting Corporation</a>. The series began as a YouTube sketch series and has since become very popular among Australian teens.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recent works of the genre have been used by Australians of non-English speaking backgrounds to assert ethnic identity rather than succumb to ethnic stereotypes.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon the release of <i>Wog Boy 2</i>, Giannopoulos discussed the contemporary use of the term "wog" in the Australian context: </p> <blockquote><p>I think by defusing the word 'wog' we've shown our maturity and our great ability to adapt and just laugh things off, you know... When I first came [to Greece] and I started trying to explain to them why we got called 'wog' they'd get really angry about it, you know. They were, "Why? Why they say this about the <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greek</a> people?" You know? But then when they see what we've done with it—and this is the twist—that we've turned it into a term of endearment, they actually really get into that...</p></blockquote> <p>Thus, in contemporary Australia, the term "wog" may, in certain contexts, be viewed as a "<a href="/wiki/Nickname" title="Nickname">nickname</a>" rather than a pejorative term<sup id="cite_ref-Guard_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guard-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—akin to the nicknames ascribed within Australian English to other historically significant cultural groupings such as Australians ("<a href="/wiki/Skip" class="mw-disambig" title="Skip">Skips</a>"), the English ("<a href="/wiki/Alternative_names_for_the_British" class="mw-redirect" title="Alternative names for the British">Poms</a>"), the Americans ("<a href="/wiki/Yankee" title="Yankee">Yanks</a>") and New Zealanders ("<a href="/wiki/Kiwi_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiwi (people)">Kiwis</a>"). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_uses">Other uses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Soldier_Sleeping_1948.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Soldier_Sleeping_1948.jpg/220px-Soldier_Sleeping_1948.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Soldier_Sleeping_1948.jpg/330px-Soldier_Sleeping_1948.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Soldier_Sleeping_1948.jpg/440px-Soldier_Sleeping_1948.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Israeli soldier sleeping under graffiti that refers to Arabs as "wogs" during the <a href="/wiki/1948_Palestine_war" title="1948 Palestine war">1948 Palestine War</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Central_Intelligence_Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Central Intelligence Agency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Duane_Clarridge" title="Duane Clarridge">Duane Clarridge</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a> officer, explained that the term "wog factor" was used by the CIA "to acknowledge that the motivations that shape decision-making in <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a> are very different from our own."<sup id="cite_ref-Scibner_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scibner-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scientology">Scientology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Scientology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_Scientology#wog" title="Glossary of Scientology">Glossary of Scientology § wog</a></div> <p>The word "wog" is derogatorily used by <a href="/wiki/Scientology" title="Scientology">Scientologists</a> to refer to unenlightened non-Scientologists.<sup id="cite_ref-reitman_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reitman-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Randy_Newman">Randy Newman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Randy Newman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1972 song "<a href="/wiki/Sail_Away_(Randy_Newman_song)" title="Sail Away (Randy Newman song)">Sail Away</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Randy_Newman" title="Randy Newman">Randy Newman</a>, a slave trader trying to convince an African person to sail to America with the slaver refers to the African as a "little wog".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs" title="List of ethnic slurs">List of ethnic slurs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dago_(slur)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dago (slur)">Dago (slur)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wog&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Finnj%C3%A4vel" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnjävel">Finnjävel</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">French</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cheese-eating_surrender_monkeys" title="Cheese-eating surrender monkeys">Cheese-eating surrender monkeys</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Frog_(pejorative)" class="mw-redirect" title="Frog (pejorative)">Frog</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gabacho" title="Gabacho">Gabacho</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_terms_used_for_Germans" title="List of terms used for Germans">Germans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_terms_used_for_Germans#Hun_(pejorative)" title="List of terms used for Germans">Hun</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kraut" title="Kraut">Kraut</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Greeks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Grecomans" title="Grecomans">Grecomans</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Irish</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fenian" title="Fenian">Fenian</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Irish_republicanism" title="Irish republicanism">Republicans</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Hun<span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Irish_Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Protestant">Irish Protestant</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Knacker" title="Knacker">Knacker</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Irish_Travellers" title="Irish Travellers">Irish Travellers</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pikey" title="Pikey">Pikey</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>Irish Travellers</i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shoneenism" title="Shoneenism">Shoneen</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>Anglophile Irish</i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Taig" title="Taig">Taig</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholics" title="Irish Catholics">Irish Catholics</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/West_Brit" title="West Brit">West Brit</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>Anglophile Irish</i>)</span></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Italians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">Dago</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Goombah" title="Goombah">Goombah</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Greaseball</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Guido_(slang)" title="Guido (slang)">Guido</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Guinea</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Polentone" title="Polentone">Polentone</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Northern_Italy" title="Northern Italy">Northern Italians</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs_by_ethnicity#Sardinians" class="mw-redirect" title="List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity">Sardegnolo</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Sardinian_people" title="Sardinian people">Sardinians</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs_by_ethnicity#Sardinians" class="mw-redirect" title="List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity">Sheep shagger</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>Sardinians</i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Terrone" title="Terrone">Terrone</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Southern_Italy" title="Southern Italy">South Italians</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wop" title="Wop">Wop</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wog</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Polack" title="Polack">Polack</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pshek" class="mw-redirect" title="Pshek">Pshek</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Russians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Moskal" title="Moskal">Moskal</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Orc_(slang)" title="Orc (slang)">Orc</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tibla" title="Tibla">Tibla</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anti-Serb_sentiment#Hate_speech_and_derogatory_terms" title="Anti-Serb sentiment">Serbs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shkije" title="Shkije">Shkije</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Serbomans" title="Serbomans">Serbomans</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spaniards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">Dago</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gachup%C3%ADn" title="Gachupín">Gachupín</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Polaco_(slur)" title="Polaco (slur)">Polaco</a> <span style="font-size:85%;"><i>(<a href="/wiki/Catalan_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalan people">Catalans</a>)</i></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Quinqui_jargon" title="Quinqui jargon">Quinqui</a> <span style="font-size:85%;"><i>(Mercheros)</i></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Xarnego" title="Xarnego">Xarnego</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ukrainians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Oseledets" title="Oseledets">Khokhol</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ukrop" title="Ukrop">Ukrop</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bulgarophiles" title="Bulgarophiles">Bulgarophiles</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Macedonians_(ethnic_group)" title="Macedonians (ethnic group)">Macedonians</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Serbs" title="Serbs">Serbs</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hunky_(ethnic_slur)" title="Hunky (ethnic slur)">Hunky</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<i>eastern and central europeans</i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yestonians" title="Yestonians">Yestonians</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Russification" title="Russification">Russified</a> <a href="/wiki/Estonians" title="Estonians">Estonians</a></i>)</span></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/East_Asian_people" title="East Asian people">East Asians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Banana,_Coconut,_and_Twinkie" class="mw-redirect" title="Banana, Coconut, and Twinkie">Banana</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>westernized East Asians</i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gook" title="Gook">Gook</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sangokujin" title="Sangokujin">Sangokujin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tokutei_Asia" title="Tokutei Asia">Toku-A</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>Chinese and Korean</i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Banana,_Coconut,_and_Twinkie" class="mw-redirect" title="Banana, Coconut, and Twinkie">Twinkie</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>westernized East Asians</i>)</span></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anti-Chinese_sentiment#Derogatory_terms" title="Anti-Chinese sentiment">Chinese</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ah_Beng" title="Ah Beng">Ah Beng</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chinaman" title="Chinaman">Chinaman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ching_chong" title="Ching chong">Ching chong</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chink" title="Chink">Chink</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chinky" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinky">Chinky</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coolie" title="Coolie">Coolie</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jook-sing" title="Jook-sing">Jook-sing</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Overseas_Chinese" title="Overseas Chinese">overseas</a></i> / <i>westernized Chinese</i>)</span> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Locust_(ethnic_slur)" title="Locust (ethnic slur)">Locust</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shina_(word)" title="Shina (word)">Shina</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment#Derogatory_terms" title="Anti-Japanese sentiment">Japanese</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jap" title="Jap">Jap</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jjokbari" title="Jjokbari">Jjokbari</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nip" title="Nip">Nip</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Xiao_Riben" title="Xiao Riben">Xiao Riben</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anti-Korean_sentiment#Derogatory_terms" title="Anti-Korean sentiment">Koreans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ban-jjokbari" class="mw-redirect" title="Ban-jjokbari">Ban-jjokbari</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>Japan-affiliated Korean people</i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gaoli_bangzi" title="Gaoli bangzi">Gaoli bangzi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sangokujin" title="Sangokujin">Sangokujin</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>also Chinese</i>)</span></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Taiwanese</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tai_Ke" title="Tai Ke">Tai Ke</a> <span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Benshengren" title="Benshengren">Benshengren</a></i>)</span></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups" class="mw-redirect" title="South Asian ethnic groups">South Asians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/American-Born_Confused_Desi" class="mw-redirect" title="American-Born Confused Desi">American-Born Confused Desi (ABCD)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coconut_(slur)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coconut (slur)">Coconut</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i>westernized South Asians</i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coolie" title="Coolie">Coolie</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bengali Hindus</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bong_(term)" title="Bong (term)">Bong</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bongal" title="Bongal">Bongal</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Danchi_babu" title="Danchi babu">Danchi babu</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dkhar" title="Dkhar">Dkhar</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Malaun" title="Malaun">Malaun</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mayang_(term)" title="Mayang (term)">Mayang</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chink#India" title="Chink">Chinki</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Northeast_India" title="Northeast India">Northeast Indians</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coolie" title="Coolie">Coolie</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Keling" title="Keling">Keling</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Indian_diaspora#Asia" title="Indian diaspora">Maritime Southeast Asian-origin Indians</a></i>)</span></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pakistanis</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paki_(slur)" title="Paki (slur)">Paki</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Southeast Asians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anti-Filipino_sentiment#Derogatory_terms" title="Anti-Filipino sentiment">Filipinos</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anti-Vietnamese_sentiment#Derogatory_terms" title="Anti-Vietnamese sentiment">Vietnamese</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eurasians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rafida" title="Rafida">Rafida</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shi'ites</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Raghead" class="mw-redirect" title="Raghead">Raghead</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wog</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jewish_deicide" title="Jewish deicide">Christ killer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jewish-American_princess_stereotype" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish-American princess stereotype">Jewish-American princess (JAP)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kafir" title="Kafir">Kafir</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Khazar_hypothesis_of_Ashkenazi_ancestry" title="Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry">Khazar</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" title="Ashkenazi Jews">Ashkenazi Jews</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kike" title="Kike">Kike</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Marrano" title="Marrano">Marrano</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Converso" title="Converso">Conversos</a></i> / <i><a href="/wiki/Crypto-Judaism" title="Crypto-Judaism">Crypto-Jews</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan" title="Rootless cosmopolitan">Rootless cosmopolitan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wog</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yekke" title="Yekke">Yekke</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany" title="History of the Jews in Germany">German Jews</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yid" title="Yid">Yid</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Zhyd" title="Zhyd">Zhyd / Zhydovka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/%C5%BBydokomuna" title="Żydokomuna">Żydokomuna</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Turkic_peoples" title="Turkic peoples">Turks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kebab" title="Kebab">Kebab</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mongols" title="Mongols">Mongol</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kanake" title="Kanake">Kanake</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Romani_people" title="Romani people">Romani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dom_people" title="Dom people">Dom</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lom_people" title="Lom people">Lom</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Didicoy" class="mw-redirect" title="Didicoy">Didicoy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gypsies" class="mw-redirect" title="Gypsies">Gypsies</a> <span style="font-size:85%;"><i>(sometimes used against other semi-nomadic groups)</i></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nawar_people" title="Nawar people">Nawar</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Zott" title="Zott">Zott</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oceanians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Blackfella" title="Blackfella">Blackfella</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Australians" title="Indigenous Australians">Indigenous Australians</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hori_(slur)" title="Hori (slur)">Hori</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people" title="Māori people">Māori</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kanaka_(Pacific_Island_worker)" title="Kanaka (Pacific Island worker)">Kanaka</a><span style="font-size:85%;"> (<i><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander" title="Pacific Islander">Pacific Islander</a></i>)</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coconut_(slur)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coconut (slur)">Coconut</a><span 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