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	Germany: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even though the German language and the feeling of "Germanhood" go back many centuries, the region now known as Germany was only formally created in 1871, when the German Empire emerged from the northern part of the German Confederation, which was dominated by Prussia.
		The war ended in 1918, and the German emperor was forced to abdicate.
		The recent adoption of a common European currency and the general political and economic integration of Europe are thought to bring major changes to the German economy in the early 21st century.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ge/Germany.html (1379 words)

	Offensive terms per nationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second version of the term is produced by "backward etymology": "-ik" is a diminutive suffix in Russian language.
		These terms are also offensive slang terms for a follower of communist ideology, regardless of nationality, or one whose views are alleged to resemble communism.
		Allegedly, the use of this term to refer to Americans originated in Yugoslavia during the war of 2000-2001, and was imported to Russian in the course of "brotherhood of slavonic peoples" media campaign of that time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pejorative_terms_for_Germans (4980 words)

	Encyclopedia: Yankee
		If this is the origin of the term Yankee, it may originally have had a pejorative, anti-American connotation similar to that of gringo, becoming transformed by being adopted as a matter of pride by British-descended Americans who had fought on the frontier during the French and Indian War.
		An early use of the term outside the U.S. was in the creation of Sam Slick, the "Yankee Clockmaker," in a column in a newspaper in Halifax, Canada in 1835.
		The use of the term was highly significant in the context of the American Civil War.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yankee (1618 words)

	Pejorative terms for Germans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A historic pejorative term for the French is "frog".
		The term is primarilyused in the UK to refer to a French national, but is also used in other English -speaking countries.
		The term "wog" was originally used in Britain to signify Turks, but it has become used as a general derogatory term for peoplefrom Southern Europe (particularly Italians and Greeks) and the Middle East, and to some extent, foreigners in general.
	www.therfcc.org /pejorative-terms-for-germans-292352.html (1409 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Offensive terms per nationality
		In the UK, Germans are also frequently mocked for their lack of a sense of humour, and their zest for claiming the best sunloungers at hotel swimming pools first thing in the morning before others are awake.
		This term was particularly popular immediately after the Winter War, when the Germans broke their treaty with the Finnish and burned several towns in Lapland.
		Allegedly, the use of this term to refer to Americans originated in Yugoslavia during the war of 2000-2001, and was imported to Russian in the course of (rather hysterical) "brotherhood of slavonic peoples" media campaign of that time.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Offensive_terms_per_nationality (2875 words)

	Fascism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike the pre-World War II period, when many groups openly and proudly proclaimed themselves fascist, since World War II the term has taken on an extremely pejorative meaning, largely in reaction to the crimes against humanity committed by the National Socialist Nazis, who were allied with Mussolini during the war.
		He was freed in September by German paratroopers under command of Otto Skorzeny and installed as head of a puppet "Italian Social Republic" at Salo in German-occupied northern Italy.
		By the mid-50s, the Spanish Miracle and the rise of the Opus Dei in the Franco regime led to Falangist fascism being discarded and fascists minimized in importance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fascism (8741 words)

	Offensive terms per nationality - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 2003, "cheese-eating surrender monkey" came into common usage as a pejorative term for the French, in the United States.
		The pejoriative term for the French in the Spanish language is "gabacho".
		The term "wog" was originally used in Great Britain to signify Turks,but it has become used as a general derogatory term for Middle Easterners and to some extent foreigners in general.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Pejorative_terms_for_Germans (701 words)

	Kraut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The stereotype of the sauerkraut-eating German dates back to long before this time, though, as can for example be seen in Jules Verne's depiction of the evil German industrialist Schultz as an avid sauerkraut eater in "The Five Hundred Million Of The Begum".
		The area of continental Europe where sauerkraut is probably the most typical regional dish is Alsace-Lorraine, which has been German for a number of periods in history.
		Krautrock is a popularly accepted term for a form of highly experimental German post-Prog Rock of the late 1960s and 1970s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kraut (270 words)

	Pejorative terms for Germans: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Pejorative terms for Germans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pejorative terms for Germans: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Pejorative terms for Germans
		The word Kraut has to some extent succeeded Hun as a racist term for Germans in the English language.
		Whenever Austrians want to insult Germans they use the word Piefke (pronounced "peefke"), whereas Bavarians prefer the word Saupreiß ("Prussian Sow", pronounced "sow price"), Frenchmen use "sale Boche[?]" and Dutchmen use "Moffe[?]".
	www.encyclopedian.com /pe/Pejorative-terms-for-Germans.html (94 words)

	Origins of Racist Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Germans typically have, or are thought to have, rather square heads.
		A Russian term for fls, which originated because of their dark skin which looks like it is covered in coal dust.
		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)

	Talk:Kraut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		“But get to the German section, not a peep.” Many of those Germans were from the elite Afrika Korps.
		“Arrogance” is the term used by former Butner POW Johann Corinth in his memoir “Krauts” ISBN 3-935111-14--2 (http://www.videel.de/corinth/dt/docs/krauts-excpt1-ger.html), and it “found its high point in Camp Butner on 20 April 1945, Hitler’s birthday.” A truckload of “Afrikaners” left camp for a work assignment that morning, Corinth writes.
		Riding in the bed, unseen by their driver and guard, the prisoners had a 3-foot-long paper banner emblazoned with a swastika and German eagle.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Kraut (340 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pejorative terms for Germans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Camel humper (implying Zoophilia) or Sand-nigger are very offensive terms mainly used in the USA.
		Käsekopf (cheese-head) is common in Germany, refering both to the cheese produced in the Netherlands, as well as an insinuation that they are a foolish or unintellegent people.
		Dirty French relating to a stereotype of the french as being unclean, and often that their women are unshaven.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pejorative-terms-for-Germans (1939 words)

	Junkmedia: Krautrock Primer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The term Krautrock was coined by the British press to describe the strange music coming out of Germany in the early 1970s.
		A good deal of German musicians from that era were also formally schooled in music, which is another discerning feature from most Anglo-American acts of the time (Miles Davis, for example, was appalled to discover that most rock and roll acts knew little to no music theory).
		Germans began making modern music on their own terms, instead of taking cues from their Anglo-American counterparts.
	www.junkmedia.org /?i=20 (1091 words)

	Kraut -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The (A person of German nationality) German word Kraut is a generic term that is often used in compound nouns for cabbage, cabbage products and many herbs:
		Today it's sometimes used for (A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared) marijuana.
		The term (Click link for more info and facts about Krautrock) Krautrock is derived from the word in this meaning.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kr/kraut.htm (182 words)

	The Sick Socialist Swastika is exposed !
		The myth was refuted by the historic discovery that the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) came from a socialist in the USA who used the military salute as part of the original pledge of allegiance.
		The myth was refuted by the historic discovery that the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) came from a national socialist in the USA who used a straight-arm salute as part of the original pledge of allegiance.
		It is fascinating to think that of the gazillion times and ways that the National Socialist German Workers Party referred to the symbol of their socialism, many people failed to grasp the full import of what they were saying, and that the words also referred to the "S" shapes of the symbol.
	rexcurry.net /swastikanews.html (7799 words)

	Mary Snell-Homby
		There are some short quotations in German in the text and some longer passages in the footnotes, but I trust that does not make the article inaccessible to those who do not read German.
		Among the Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Colloquium in Ghent (1978) there is a contribution with an unusual title: "Cinderella, or: English language courses at German universities", a survey of courses taught in the Summer Semester 1978, followed by a critical evaluation.
		What seems to be overlooked is the fact that between the two extremes of abstract theorising and mechanical pattern practice there is an infinite variety of shading, whereby aspects of theory and practice can be integrated.
	www.dennisnewson.de /hornby.html (4159 words)

	Innocents Abroad: 02/02/2003 - 02/08/2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Political factions, especially those of the Italian city-states and the German princes, aligned themselves with the Church in order to advance, through a corrosive reciprocal relationship, their vital interests.
		At the same time, this position is really nothing other than the expression of the German Chancellor’s manipulation of the issue to gain re-election, coupled with a self-serving manipulation of the history of Franco-German relations by the French President to advance his own role in Europe.
		She warns that Schroeder’s Germany is quite a different beast from the West German Republic we’ve all come to know.
	innocentsabroad.blogspot.com /2003_02_02_innocentsabroad_archive.html (5113 words)

	Far Outliers
		Stefan Baciu was born in Brasov, Romania, on 29 October 1918, and died in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, on 7 January 1993.
		The German's attempt to make the Bevel Forest one of the fierce, slow defensive maneuvers was thwarted and their lines became utterly disorganized.
		"Toraja" was merely a derogatory term applied by the Bugis and Makassarese living in the lowlands of the southwest peninsula of Sulawesi (then called Celebes) to any of the many different peoples living in the mountainous regions of the peninsula and central Sulawesi.
	faroutliers.blogspot.com /2004_01_01_faroutliers_archive.html (14711 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Subject: Pejorative stereotypes May I suggest to Gerald M. Phillips that in the future he not refer to Vietnamese as "little saffron colored slant-eyed humans" nor make fun of their pronunciation by using the 'r/l' allophohic 'joke i.e.
		This is truely pejorative even if the stereoptype is of Vietnamese Jews and even if it is aimed at revealing Jewish stereotyping.
		Subject: Terms for Jews and non-so As a youth, I do not recall hearing the various terms mentioned for non-Jews and/or dark-skinned people.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~mendele/vol02/vol02.119 (486 words)

	Kraut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The German word Kraut is a generic term for certain edible plants.
		In the English language (but not in German), Kraut has also come to be used as a derogatory term for a German, based on Sauerkraut which originated in German cuisine.
		In this respect, the word Kraut has to some extent succeeded Hun as a racist term.
	www.termsdefined.net /kr/kraut.html (191 words)

	Malcolm X was prescient \| MetaFilter
		Current day Germans should be appalled by what their grandpas and grandmas did, not at my alluding to those things.
		Caddis, BIRT that everything you claim is true and as pejorative and insidious as you believe it to be, it does not justify orthogonality's and others' claims.
		Those Germans were struggling much harder than we are today, to be sure.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/40126 (10625 words)

	glossary pt1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Not a pejorative term in much criticism, for it often implies a "making" or "re-creating" or "re-presenting" of a form in a substance not natural to it.
		Shaw says that "The material of the dramatist is always some conflict of human feeling with circumstances"; when the circumstances are "human institutions" (e.g., divorce laws, penal codes) rather than unchanging facts of life (e.g., death), and the audience is forced to meditate on the value of the institutions, we have a problem play.
		A term coined by Thomas Rymer in 1678, denoting the reward of the virtuous and the punishment of the vicious.
	www.ripon.edu /Faculty/Amsdenr/THE231/Glossary.html (11604 words)

	FRONTLINE: nuclear reaction: Jim Howard
		The British, the Germans have good nuclear plants, although I don't think they'll build any new ones over there in the near term.
		And I'm hopeful that something like that will come along, where we can get away from these pejorative terms like "garbage" and so forth, and say, "Yes, this maybe is a national treasure some day," like Kazakhstan says.
		And you've got to remember that, in terms of greenhouse gases and so forth, there's virtually zero emissions there from nuclear power.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interviews/howard.html (4349 words)

	...and Germans LOVE David Hasselhoff \| MetaFilter
		I suppose this is as good a time as any to mention The Tard Blog, it hasn't been updated in a while but the archives are there and they are truly side-splittingly funny.
		Well, it's that the word "retarded" has come to have multiple meanings, one of which is pejorative.
		If someone intends a term to be meant pejoratively, it comes across.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/43987 (5801 words)

	pejorative - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Pejorative : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
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	www.onelook.com /?w=pejorative (192 words)

	CLIS J746
		We were under the impression that the term merry widow was older than that.
		Looking for the definition of the term "basionym." It has something to do with taxonomy, most probably having to do with the naming of new species.
		What is the derivation of two derogatory French terms for Germans: "chleuh" and "fridolin" -- patron would like to know where these terms came from and why they are derogatory terms for Germans.
	www.curtisrogers.info /problemset.htm (9115 words)

	The Michigan Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Britain’s advertising watchdog has now ruled that the word “kraut,”; a well known pejorative term for Germans, is now acceptable, saying it’s “a lighthearted reference to a national stereotype unlikely to cause serious or widespread offense.’’
		“Kraut,”; will now join “frog” and of course, “bloody Yank,” as acceptable terms in advertising, and will be presumably followed into acceptance by “jerry” or “huns.” Using a lighthearted reference to a national stereotype that isn’t white, however, is still punishable by death by drawing and quartering.
		The Dali Lama is urging the United States to stop bombing Afghanistan and to open a dialogue concerning the September 11 attacks.
	www.michiganreview.com /article.php?id=59 (755 words)

	Offensive terms per nationality - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fritz was the main term around the World War II in many countries (particularly the East Bloc, such as Hungary, Poland, Russia, etc as well as Scandanavia).
		Yank – short for Yankees; Yanqui in Spanish, jenki in Hungarian, jenkki in Finnish; usually would not be considered offensive by an American (unless a Southerner), nor is it always intended offensively.
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	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Pejorative_terms_for_Germans (4959 words)

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