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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Nov 15, 2008 11:59:06 GMT -5
Kapetan:
Wog is also an ethnic slur in Australian English. The term traditionally denoted immigrants principally of Southern European Mediterranean and Eastern European origins (and since then, also their descendants). Among those traditionally included as wogs are Australians of Italian, Greek, Maltese, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, Serbian, and Bulgarian descent.
In modern usage, the term has seen itself extended and has become highly subjective and arbitrary. It now often encompasses latter migratory waves of Mediterraneans of non-European stock, that is, people from the Mediterranean countries of the Middle East and North Africa, such as Turks, Lebanese, Syrians, Palestinians, and Egyptians. Still yet, as a further extension to this expanded meaning, other peoples from Middle Eastern countries not bordering the Mediterranean might also see themselves drawn into the scope of the word, including Iraqis, Jordanians, up to and including Iranians, but not Afghans or those further beyond (note the arbitrayness, as both Iranians and Afghans are the one same ethnicity; Persians). It may sometimes even included Latin Americans as an extension to the Spanish and Portuguese, both of whom are indeed included in the traditional meaning of the word. At the same time, the frequency of the application of "wog" to the traditionally encompassed Europeans has lessened as they integrated and assimilated into the general population (over their comparatively longer history in Australia compared to later non-European "wogs" who are still in the early stages of the same process given their later arrival).
The "ethnic" character of the term "wog" came into popular use in the 1950s when Australia accepted large numbers of immigrants from Southern Europe's Mediterranean countries and from Eastern Europe, in contrast to the then overwhelmingly dominant ethnic Anglo-Celtic stock of the population. Although originally used pejoratively, the term is increasingly used more affectionately, especially by the individuals the term is used to describe
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Post by Trazi Vise on Nov 17, 2008 6:44:49 GMT -5
It's basically anyone who wasn't born here apart from Asians!
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Post by mordid2 on Sept 21, 2011 4:08:37 GMT -5
Eastern European are wog? Yeah, right..
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Post by Moe Lester on Sept 21, 2011 5:51:04 GMT -5
A lot of wogs now feel pride in calling themselves "wogs".
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Post by mordid2 on Sept 21, 2011 6:25:12 GMT -5
I think wog mean having odd facial features, not just pigmentation. There are plenty of brunette among people from British Isle and in fact, when I used to live in UK, Poles are definitely much more fairer than the average English.
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Post by Moe Lester on Sept 21, 2011 7:14:20 GMT -5
I heard wog originally meant "Welcome overseas Guest". But that was probably some thing I heard in primary school.
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Post by missanthropology58 on Sept 21, 2011 7:17:42 GMT -5
Lol like it says. Well in the UK it usually means a Asian person like a Pakistani but in Oz it usually means people from the Balkans Turks Armenians Greeks Lebs anyone with brown hair and a slight tan. Some Lebs can come from the Balkans if they have Armenian or Turkish blood but Palestinians and Egyptians for the most part are Asians
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Post by missanthropology58 on Sept 21, 2011 7:18:51 GMT -5
@ Morbid like it says Serbs and Albanians can look like Wogs or Turks easily.
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