Why italians guineas

Unlike the "N-word", which African-Americans sometimes use to address each other, no Italian-American would ever address another Italian-American using this word. Nor would they use the word " wop " also offensive, but not in a racial way. I'm not going to do business with that fat guinea bastard. Slang term for an Italian. Like the "N" word to a black guy.

Others include Wop. I am italian, therefore i am a guinea. Im a Wop too. Once you go wop you dont stop. This dates back to the 's. Where did wop really come from? Sicilian immigrants to the United States brought the swaggering word with them. It was these Sicilian words that were commonly used to describe the work-bosses who lured their greenhorn paesani into servitude in New York City in the early years of the twentieth century.

In , on the American Dialect Society mailing list , the word-researcher Douglas Wilson shared examples going back to in New York City newspapers. The members of the Five Points gang, all dark skinned sons of Sicily, grew tired of flitting from place to place, with no set rendezvous for their nightly gatherings.

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