Racist Slang Stereotypes

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Slang can reflect harmful prejudices that people have toward particular group of people. These racist slang words can be directed at specific racial or ethnic groups and attacks people using words that would not be tolerated in writing or in any speech situation, There are terms such as “colored” which are now known to be offensive, displaying sensibility and ignorance on the part of speaker, For example the term ' KAHNIS ' is considered as an inappropriate term to use in Morocco, While we can found a good number of people who use it to refer to a black person.

Some terms in common use within equality and race equality discourse are offered to encourage discussion and debate rather than to be prescriptive, Many slang words are

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