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	White_cracker
		"White cracker" or simply "cracker" was originally a pejorative term for a white person, mainly used by blacks in the Southern United States.
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		In recent years (as of 2005), the term has gained some currency as a prideful self-description.
	mindwallet.com /wiki/White_cracker (630 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> cracker
		White cracker, is a slang word for a white person that is often considered pejorative
		Cracker (whip), a short length of twisted twine or string attached to the end of a whip
		The word cracker has many meanings, the most common ones are:
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/cracker (123 words)

	Neowin.net - Microsoft Wants to Meet More Hackers - Microsoft Wants to Meet More Hackers
		The pejorative sense of hacker is becoming more prominent largely because the popular press has co-opted the term to refer to individuals who gain unauthorised access to computer systems for the purpose of stealing and corrupting data.
		In the computer magazines around here, "hacker" is a neutral term implying a skilled computer enthusiast, and used with qualifiers such as "black hat hacker", "white hat hacker" or even "malicious hacker" to differentiate among various hacker cultures.
		In summary, the only group that consistently uses "hacker" in a derogatory sense is the press (often excepting the professional computer press, of course).
	www.neowin.net /comments.php?id=29759&category=software (1884 words)

	Pejorative: Encyclopedia topic
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) applied against them, with limited success: when usage of a term like nigger (nigger: (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person), redneck (redneck: A poor white person in the southern United States), "white cracker (white cracker: "white cracker," or simply "cracker," was originally a pejorative term for a white...
		Sometimes a term may begin as a pejorative word and eventually be adopted in a non-pejorative sense.
		list of ethnic slurs (list of ethnic slurs: the following is a list of ethnic slurs that are, or have been, used to refer to members...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/pejorative (526 words)

	Origins of Racist Terms
		This is truly only derogatory in regions of northern Mexico and in the United States where it translates to "white foreigner." Gringo/a in many other countries in Latin America really only translates as "foreigner" without a pejorative connotation.
		Cracker was a derogatory term used by the Scarlett O'Hara set.
		Specifically a derogatory term referring to the Gullah culture of African ex-slaves on the Atlantic Coast of North Carolina and Virginia.
	www.angelfire.com /geek/APRACE/glossary.html (8478 words)

	Hacker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is the pejorative sense of hacker, also called cracker or black-hat hacker in order to preserve unambiguity.
		Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome.
		Hacker, in golf, means a duffer, a mediocre player who enjoys playing but makes no serious effort to improve his skill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hacker (8478 words)

	What is hacker? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		The pejorative sense of hacker is becoming more prominent largely because the popular press has coopted the term to refer to individuals who gain unauthorized access to computer systems for the purpose of stealing and corrupting data.
		Hackers, themselves, maintain that the proper term for such individuals is cracker.
		Among professional programmers, depending on how it used, the term can be either complimentary or derogatory, although it is developing an increasingly derogatory connotation.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/h/hacker.html (414 words)

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