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The word nigger is considered derogatory by African Americans, but what does it actually mean or connote?
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Name : LS, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 55, City : Ann Arbor, State : MI Country : United States, Occupation : Administrator, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,It simply refers to someone who doesn’t know how to behave politely in public places. Someone who does not care about an education. Someone who has little regard for responsible sex or the children it produces. In other words, someone who has no regard for anyone or anything other than themselves.
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Name : William, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Methodist, Age : 39, City : Columbia, State : SC Country : United States, Occupation : Sales, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I always assumed that it was a slur of the word negro, which is the color black in latin. i also thought it possibly was used to call someone by their color ages ago, and then it eventually turned into a derrogatory word.
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Name : Susan27500, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Unitarian, Age : 21, City : Thunder Bay, State : NA Country : Canada, Social class : Middle class,The use of the word nigger is truly sad. But it is not used much nowadays. One explanation could be that most black slaves to the Americas were from Nigeria and near the Niger river. The word nigger could have come from there. Also, people are divided into three races: Mongoloids, Caucasoids and Negroids, so maybe it came from ‘Negroid.’
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Name : Paul30498, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 26, City : Cape Town, State : NA Country : South Africa, Occupation : Work in insurance, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,Well, here’s the definition in the dictionary:
Main Entry: nig·ger; Pronunciation: ‘ni-g&r; Function: noun; Etymology: alteration of earlier neger, from Middle French negre, from Spanish or Portuguese negro, from negro black, from Latin niger; Date: 1700;
1 usually offensive, see usage paragraph below : a black person;
2 usually offensive, see usage paragraph below : a member of any dark-skinned race
3 : a member of a socially disadvantaged class of personsUsage of Nigger in senses 1 and 2 can be found in the works of such writers of the past as Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens, but it now ranks as perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English. Its use by and among blacks is not always intended or taken as offensive, but, except in sense 3, it is otherwise a word expressive of racial hatred and bigotry.
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Name : Wayne-C24414, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Age : 41, City : Parsippany, State : NJ Country : United States, Occupation : marketing, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,The true meaning of the word is ignorant person look it up!
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Name : Heather21455, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Christian, Age : 16, City : Montrose, State : MI Country : United States, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Middle class,
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