Sunday, June 5, 2016

They hate us in China..........


Gweilo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Gweilo or gwai lo is a common Cantonese slang term for foreigners although this does not ... InChinese, "ghost" can be a derogatory term used as a curse or an insult, and the word "ghost" had been .... The Cantonese term bak gwei means "white devil" and was used historically as a derogatory reference to Caucasians.

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Aug 29, 2015 - Let me run through the Chinese languages I speak. Mandarin: 老外 ("Old Outsider"). Nope, not white devil. 洋鬼子 ("foreign/overseas devil").

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Urban Dictionary: gweilo

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Urban Dictionary
Apparently it was once meant to mean "foreign devil" (an extreme insult), but ... It is considered highly offensive in Mandarin China and with some white people.

Chinatown's 'White Devil John' Sentenced To 20 Years : Code Switch ...

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Aug 16, 2013 - John Willis, also known as "White Devil John" in Cantonese, was ... term to describe white people in the Chinese dialect of Cantonese.).

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Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago Shanshan Lan. origin of the term ... In fact, the term lo fann is used more often than bak gwai (white devil).

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