Self-applied 'racist' terms.

[Boatti, Stephen]

Mark Odegard wrote__

Regarding 'Guinea', it's my experience the word is applied by
Italian-Americans to themselves.

There is of course the phenomenon of the 'in-group' using the big bad word
among themselves, blacks using the n-word, gays using the q-word, and the
such.

That's not my experience, as a 1st generation Italian-American. I'm sure
some I-Am's use it, perhaps as semi-humorous self derogation, but it's by no
means common or widespread. Most Italian-Americans hate the term with a
passion.


Steve

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Mark Odegard [mailto:markodegard at HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent:   Friday, February 09, 2001 5:00 PM
To:     ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject:        Self-applied 'racist' terms.

Regarding 'Guinea', it's my experience the word is applied by
Italian-Americans to themselves.

There is of course the phenomenon of the 'in-group' using the big bad word
among themselves, blacks using the n-word, gays using the q-word, and the
such.



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