mk so, looking at that neither use is "wrong".
LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 16/06/2010 08:53:05 AM
"The "ethnic" character of the term "wog" came into popular usage from the 1950s, when Australia accepted immigration of Italians, Maltese, Cypriots, Greeks, Lebanese who contrasted with the dominant Northern and Western European stock of the Australian population."
Note: Greeks and Italians.
My understanding of wog comes from the Australian use, so I'm still correct in that standing. I wasn't even aware that other portions of the world used the word with any frequency.
But okay. by the old british slang definition, dark skinned africans like some of the native egyptians would be "wogs".
Note: Greeks and Italians.
My understanding of wog comes from the Australian use, so I'm still correct in that standing. I wasn't even aware that other portions of the world used the word with any frequency.
But okay. by the old british slang definition, dark skinned africans like some of the native egyptians would be "wogs".
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*Incoherent sputters of historian rage* Angelina Jolie Incorrectly Cast In New Cleopatra Role
- 11/06/2010 02:35:15 AM
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I love Angelina jolie
- 11/06/2010 06:36:48 AM
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Did you read his post? There's no reason for an Africanish person to play the part. *NM*
- 11/06/2010 06:58:42 AM
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They should get Lyndsey Marshal back, she was awesome. And looked the part.
- 11/06/2010 12:45:48 PM
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Angelina is HOT, Cleopatra was NOT
- 16/06/2010 10:42:42 PM
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I'm having a hard time telling if you agree with me about Marshal or not... *NM*
- 16/06/2010 11:29:02 PM
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Wait...is the racist part the idiocy of trying to say Cleopatra was black or the "wog" calling part?
- 15/06/2010 01:38:42 AM
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it's not even a proper use of the term wog.
- 15/06/2010 10:16:25 AM
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No, actually it is.
- 15/06/2010 05:06:54 PM
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mk so, looking at that neither use is "wrong".
- 16/06/2010 08:53:05 AM
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Hence, your statement "it's not even a proper use of the term wog" is incorrect. *NM*
- 16/06/2010 01:34:45 PM
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And no one in the rest of the world cares about Australian slang. They're just weird down there. *NM*
- 16/06/2010 01:35:11 PM
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Wouldn't the closest modern ethnicity to the ancient egyptians be the Coptics? *NM*
- 16/06/2010 10:44:39 PM
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I wasn't calling anyone a wog, I was suggesting a likely parallel to the Ptolemies' attitude
- 17/06/2010 09:58:23 PM
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I completely agree that the "black Cleopatra" syndrome is born of insecurities.
- 18/06/2010 02:11:15 AM
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Yah...i don't see why people ever think Cleopatra should be black.
- 15/06/2010 10:18:12 AM
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