20 things you say you did not know how to be offensive
Many common words or expressions have insidious origins.
Cobble together - in your head, especially if there are children around - a list of the most offensive words and phrases you can think. Chances are, it is full of the usual suspects: F-words and lots of words, no? But here is the thing: your list lacks some offensive sentences. And we are sorry to point out that it's a good bet you use them a lot.
For example, did you know that the common phrase "basket box" comes from a dicton used in the First World War to describe the quadriplegic? Or this "basic rule" has a violent insidious origin? (And we are sure that most parents do not know that "Fuzzy Wuzzy" was a racist term before it is the protagonist of a harmless child rhyme.) Before you accidentally launch an insult without even realizing, Read these 20 offensive words and sentences. And for more expressions, you should never pronounce, check theCommon phrases that you did not know how to have racist origins.
1 "Cacahuètes gallery"
Of course, we all heard "cacahuet gallery"Used to describe hard criticism - usually those with little knowledge of a situation - but the sentence is part of the theaters section of Vaudeville-Era. It was generally the region with the worst houses of the house, where Black were forced to sit down.
2 "SPAZ"
For many people, call someone "spastic" is just as offensive as calling someone the word r. The stigma stems from the association of the word with cerebral paralysis, a disease formerly called spastic paralysis. And for more words that you have not heard for a while, check the100 terms of slang of the 20th century that no one uses more.
3 "Hooligans"
The word "hooligans" derives from a family of cartoon characters of the same name. In the 19th century, theHooligans were a family of Irish immigrants who are fighting to integrate with London. Not only the racist cartoons, but they also described a hard stereotype of urban immigrants.
4 "Cannibal"
Most people probably do not think of the Caribbean when they think of cannibalism (rather a bloodyAnthony Hopkins comes to mind ...). But the term derives from the tribeCanibae, or caribs, in the West Indies. Allegation, this old tribe was known to eat.
5 "Mumbo Jumbo"
The phrase "Mumbo Jumbo" probably comes from the God of the West AfricanMaamajombboo. Why is it offensive? Apparently, Mandinka's men dress like the God to solve domestic disputes and abuse their wives.
6 "Fuzzy Wuzzy"
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear ... but before that, he was not so innocent. In the 1800s, the British colonial soldiers evoked the people of a nomadic tribe from East Africa as "blurred wuzzies" because of their dark skin and their curly hair. The term was then picked up by other military groups to refer to other indigenous peoples in places like Papa New Guinea and Sudan. And for more obsolete sentences, consult the20 SLAOT Terms of the 1990s person does not rely.
7 "Can not do"
There is a reason that the sentence "can not do"It looks like a broken English. The saying claimed in the mid-1800s-a moment when Westerners have largely held a racist attitude towards the East-as a way to make fun of the English simplified Chinese pidifine.
8 "Case of basket"
This saying for a person who has difficulty face was first used during the First World War to describe a person who had lost the four members and were to becarried in a basket.
9 "Imbecile"
The term "imbecile"Was not at the origin an insult, but a psychological diagnosis denoting a light disability.
10 "Basic rule"
Nobody certainly knows where this sentence comes, but the experts believe that this has something to do with an English law of the 1600s who has allowed men to assault their women with a stick - just as long as his thick thick. Still ... Yikes!
11 "Eenie Meenie"
Today, the second line ofthese children rhymes "Catch a tiger by the TOE", but the original version included a horrible racial slur.
12 "Eskimo"
Unlike popular belief, "Eskimo" is not the right end to describe Aboriginal people in northern Canada and Alaska. The word is actually an offensive way of referring to Inuit. It derives from the Danish loan loanashkimeq, meaning "raw meat eaters".
13 "Drinking Kool-Aid"
In the 1970s, members of the temple of peoples led byJim Jones A committed mass suicide by drinking a milatette drink with cyanide and various prescription drugs. So today, people use the sentence "drinking kool-aid"Refer to a person with an unshakeable and unconditional loyalty.
14 "It has been a long time"
Recordings show that the sentence "it has been a long time"was first pronounced by an Amerindian. In principle,William F. Drranan Used the sentence in one of his novels to describe a meeting with an Amerindian: "I knew he had recognized me. When we climbed him, he said, "Hello. Long time not seeing, 'and at the same time presented the pistol with a cylinder head first. "As" no can do, "" Long Time No See "makes fun of Broken English from Native Americans.
15 "You gave your tongue to the cat"
Unfortunately,this sentence Do not follow a strange story about a man whose language was literally cawed by a cat. Rather, the English Navy used a whip called "Cat-O'-Nine-Tails" to search the victims and the pain was so intense that those on the end of the blows could not speak. Therefore, the meaning of the sentence today.
16 "Hysteria"
Back in days when almost all medical problems have been treated with illicit lobotomies and drugs, doctors used "hysteria"As a medical explanation of almost all sick women, they met. The idea of such a diagnosis comes from the conviction of Hippocrates according to which a hysteria of a woman is caused by a" errant uterus "which is deprived of sexual pleasure.
17 "Tipping point"
When you reach thetipping point In a situation, you have reached the point where "a change or effect can not be stopped". This seems sufficiently Benin, but the sentence was used in the 1950s and the 1960s to refer to the trend of white families to come out of a neighborhood once taken by an American African-American majority.
18 "Boy"
Historically, whites would describe black men like "boys" to indicate that they were not on equal play fields. The American Supreme Court evensaid the word is "not benin" and considers that its use in some contexts is racist.
19 "Out of the reservation"
Today, when a person goes "out of the reservation"They lost control. But his origins are even more sinister. As the Amerindians were once limited to the reserves created for them by the government, people would have historically used this sentence to refer to Native Americans who had often misreplaced Their land, often with contempt for indigenous peoples.
20 "Old girl"
Once upon a time the word "old girl"I did not refer to an unmarried woman, but a person who spun the yard or thread in life. Finally, the term took out its current meaning, because most of the women who were spinations were also From the lower class and not directed, relying on their work to provide themselves.