Beware

AEH Why can't we be nasty to foreigners? Updated on Fri 19 January 2007

It's been an English pastime for centuries, so why do the PC crowd now have to start objecting? In fact a large part of the English language is devoted to rude words for foreigners, so to remove this right is pulling us down to the level of the foreigners we abuse.

Flanders & Swann epitomised the way the English look at the rest of the world. One phrase comes to mind "It's just being foreign that makes them so mad"

A short glossary:
a Taffy                a Welshman
a Mick                an Irishman
a Paddy              an Irishman
a Jock                a Scotsman (and woe betide you if you call him 'a Scotchman')
a Tyke                a Yorkshireman
a Geordie            someone from Newcastle
a Frog                 a Frenchman
a Kraut                a German
a Hun                   a German
a Jerry                  a German
a Wop                 an Italian
an Itie                  an Italian
an Urdy Gurdy    anyone from a Scandinavian country (such as a Dane)
a Paki                  a Pakistani
a Wog                 anyone whose skin colour is a tiny bit darker than the average Englishman
a Ruski                a Russian
a Greaser            anyone whose complexion is a little darker than an average Englishman
a Yank                a person from the USA (and remember that America is a continent not a country. The USA is the only
                           country I know that doesn't seem to have a proper name for its citizens. The proper name for the
                           USA is "The United States of America". They are that big-headed that they think they own the
                           continent, hence their name for themselves
a Japanese          a Nip (from Nippon)
a Russian            a Ruskie

The above list was before I consulted (not insulted) an American friend. Yes, I consider him to be a friend although he did suggest "Slimy Brits". But the European s refer to us as 'Perfidious Albion'. Americans, it seems, has as many rude names as we do. Any advance on :

French = Frogs

Canadians = Canucks (Okay if they use it, rude if others use it)

Americans (other than by ethnic types) = Yanks (of course, we nullify that one by using it to describe ourselves

Whites = Honky, Cracker, Mas'er, Boy, Whitey

Africans (or anyone appearing to be African) = Nigger, Darkie, Spade, Coon, Jigaboo, Sambo, Lightnin', Uncle Tom, Boy, Spar Chucker

Spanish = Spick (usually reserved for Puerto Ricans), Wetbacks (Illegal Mexican aliens), Taco Bender, SEEN-or (no tilde), Greaser, Pendajo, Punta

Italian = Whop, Guinnie, Greaser, Eye-tack, Garlic Eater

Irish = Mick

Polish = Pollack

Indian (a' la North America) = Injun, Redskin, Chief (unless he really is one), Squaw (refers to the female genitalia and is the same as saying whore), Savage

Indian (a' la India) = Punjab, Raghead, Hindu Motherfucker

Middle Easterners = Ragheads, Wogs

Israelis (Jewish, Hebrew) = Hebe, Christ-killer, JAP (Jewish-American-Princess)

Chinese = Chink, Chop-suey, Dink, Gook, Chin-lee, Slope, Slant-eye, Banty-leg

Japanese = Jap, Slopehead, Slanteye, Gook

Indo-Chinese = (See Chinese)

Russians = Rusos, Reds, Commies

British = Limeys, Slimy Brits

Well, these are a few. Any more anybody?