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Subject: wog-bashing, Oswald Mosely? Пожалуйста, помогите перевести. wog - bashing, and then who is Oswald Mosley?Слово встречается в следующем контексте: Speaker's Corner had seen too many incidents that summer of general Jew-baiting and wog bashing. A small surge of xenophobia that was untypical of the British, and untypical of this war - followers of Oswald Mosely excepted. Заранее спасибо |
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WOG As a racial epithet in English Wog is in the UK usually regarded as an offensive slang word referring to people of color from Africa or Asia. The origin of the term is uncertain. Many dictionaries say "wog" possibly derives from the Golliwogg, a blackface minstrel doll character from a children's book published in 1895. An alternative is that "wog" originates from Pollywog, a maritime term for someone who has not crossed the equator. Attempts to derive "wog" from such phrases as "Worthy Oriental Gentleman", "Working On Government Service" (digging the Suez Canal) or "White Oriental Gentleman" are however considered backronyms. The use of the word is discouraged in Britain, and most dictionaries refer to the word with the caution that it is derogatory and offensive slang. The saying "The wogs begin at Calais" was originated by George Wigg, Labour MP for Dudley, in 1949. In a parliamentary debate concerning the Burmese, Wigg shouted at the Tory benches, "The Honourable Gentleman and his friends think they are all 'wogs'. Indeed, the Right Honourable Member for Woodford [i.e. Winston Churchill] thinks that the 'wogs' begin at Calais."[1] Wigg's coinage, sometimes paraphrased as "Wogs start at the Channel" or "Wogs start at Dover", is used to characterise a stodgy Europhobic viewpoint, and more generally the view that Britain (more so England) is inherently separate from (and superior to) the Continent. In this case, "wog" is used to compare any foreign, non-English person to those more traditionally labeled "wogs". |
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