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The English cricket team that toured the West Indies in 1959–1960 used banana boats to travel across the Atlantic and between the islands. [ citation needed ] They were better known for bringing West Indian immigrants to Great Britain , and to say that someone came off a banana boat was a derogatory phrase used by those who objected to their ...
The best-known version was released by American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 (originally titled "Banana Boat (Day-O)") and later became one of his signature songs. That same year the Tarriers released an alternative version that incorporated the chorus of another Jamaican call and response folk song, "Hill and Gully Rider".
Banana, coconut, and Twinkie are pejorative terms for Asian Americans who are perceived to have been assimilated and acculturated into mainstream American culture. In Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, coconut is similarly used against people of color to imply a betrayal of their Aboriginal or other non-white ethnic identity.
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The banana song may refer to: . The Name Game, an American popular music song as a rhyming game that creates variations on a person's name.; Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), a traditional Jamaican folk song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships.
Banana (Chinese: 香蕉人/香蕉仔; pinyin: xiāngjiāo rén / xiāngjiāo zi; Jyutping: hoeng1 ziu1 jan4/hoeng1 ziu1 zi2) (referencing the yellow skin and white insides of the fruit when fully matured) and Twinkie (based on the snack produced by American company Hostess - again, it denotes something that is "yellow" on the outside and "white" on the inside); may be used as a pejorative term ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...