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(US) a racial term used to refer to Filipino guerillas during the Philippine–American War. The term came from gugo, the Tagalog name for Entada phaseoloides or the St. Thomas bean, the bark of which was used by Filipinas to shampoo their hair. The term was a predecessor to the term gook, a racial term used to refer to all Asian people. [70 ...
A racist postcard by Fred C. Lounsbury, promoting the idea of the Yellow Peril (1907). Chink is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent, [1] but also used to insult people with East Asian features.
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The report, which surveyed 6,200 people across ethnicities, said 32% of Asian Americans nationwide were called a slur over the past 12 months, and 29% were verbally harassed or abused.
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The Tishomingo Public Schools superintendent issued an apology Thursday and canceled Friday's homecoming activities and football game after a photo of six high school students displaying a racial ...
While usually intended for ethnic Chinese, the slur has also been directed at other East Asians. Mary Paik Lee, a Korean immigrant who arrived with her family in San Francisco in 1906, wrote in her 1990 autobiography Quiet Odyssey that on her first day of school, girls circled and hit her, chanting: Ching Chong, Chinaman, Sitting on a wall.
A high school math teacher in Illinois has been fired after being recorded calling a 15-year-old Black student the N-word, weeks after allegedly throwing a book at the student’s leg.