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Derogatory Terms for Nationalities? Euros?

Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat.
Feel free to add popular derogatory terms to describe any nationality as I want to build a comprehensive list to expand my knowledge base and vocabulary.
  

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[nq:1]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat. [/nq] I'm in two minds about the wisdom of this.

  • [nq:1]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities?
  • I can't think of any off the bat.
  • [/nq] I'm in two minds about the wisdom of this.
  • However, I will say that James Follett is your man - he has a whole wardrobe full of rude terms for the Britishly-challenged.
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[nq:1]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat. Feel free to add popular derogatory terms to describe any nationality as I want to build a comprehensive list to expand my knowledge base and vocabulary.[/nq]
I'm in two minds about the wisdom of this. However, I will say that James Follett is your man - he has a whole wardrobe fu
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[nq:1]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat. Feel free to add popular derogatory terms to describe any nationality as I want to build a comprehensive list to expand my knowledge base and vocabulary.[/nq]
Do you really think that collecting derogatory terms for nations will expand your knowledge?
Maybe ignorance is your b
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[nq:1]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat.[/nq]
You need first to specify the language in which any such terms arise: and then to invent a rule governing acceptable adoption into other languages. For
example, approx. 1900 Boches was a derogatory
term in French for the Germans, and was adopted
into English durin
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[nq:1]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat. Feel free to add popular derogatory terms to describe any nationality as I want to build a comprehensive list to expand my knowledge base and vocabulary.[/nq]
See links on ,
For the classical stuff perhaps Roback, AA. A Dictionary of International Slurs, 1944, reprint 1979, M
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[nq:1]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat.[/nq]
You may note that according to anecdote
Agatha Christie made Hercule Poirot a Belgian
for the simple reason that Belgians are the only continentals for which the English do not have a derogatory term.

And that is only because the Belgians are so insignificant
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[nq:2]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat.[/nq]
[nq:1]You may note that according to anecdote Agatha Christie made Hercule Poirot a Belgian for the simple reason that Belgians are the only continentals for which the English do not have a derogatory term.[/nq]
In the movie Murder By Death , the Poirot character (Milo Pe
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[nq:1]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat.[/nq]
Krauts, Frogs, Spics, Wops...

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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E-mail - see web page, o
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[nq:2]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat.[/nq]
[nq:1]You may note that according to anecdote Agatha Christie made Hercule Poirot a Belgian for the simple reason that Belgians ... not have a derogatory term. And that is only because the Belgians are so insignificant that they had been overlooked,[/nq]
In "The Hitchhike
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Deep down, let's face it, all of us hate foreigners. It's quite natural when one lives in such a beautiful and perfect country as our own to hate and loathe those greasy-haired snivelling toadies from Europe and beyond. What worries me is that sometimes this hatred is so deep down that many of us forget about it, and instead of hitting Frenchmen and letting Dagos' tyres down, we are buying garlic
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[nq:1]Are there any Derogatory Terms for the continental European Nationalities? I can't think of any off the bat. Feel free to add popular derogatory terms to describe any nationality as I want to build a comprehensive list to expand my knowledge base and vocabulary.[/nq]
Euro, the tiniest kangaroo.

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