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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Troll Patrol: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Troll Patrol: [qb] ^That could be, I don't know about it. But it reminds me of Italians calling black Americans mullah. The word mullah has an Afrasian Arabic root. Meaning teacher! By any chance, they simply have forgotten about the actual meaning of these words, in how it was applied once. [/qb][/QUOTE]Umm...Wow patrol. I don't know where u got ur info but - Im thinking your thinking of the word "Mouli", which is short for "moulinyan". This has nothing to do with the word Mullah. an Islamic teacher. "Mouli' or "Moulinyan" meant eggplant because of the color of the eggplant. Believe me when an Italian or Sicilian speaks of a "Mouli" he is not talking about a teacher.lol! The word "Mavri" in Greek has the same meaning it had in the past - a black person. But it has come to mean something more derogatory than that. The same change has occurred for Nigra and the N word since the 19th century U.S. for the same reasons. The word was originally just the common Scottish pronunciation for Neggar (German) or Negro (Spanish) all meaning simply black or the black. White Americans became offended by its usage by common southern whites in the U.S. because of the way blacks were treated. Among southerners the word wasn't originally a derogatory term for blacks or whites just the regional pronunciation for the more WASPY (Anglo Saxon Protestant) sounding "Negro". Thus, after the Civil Rights era when southern whites met Blacks in the military and became friendly with them they would quite innocently ask things like: What do Nig_ers like to be called?.lol! The same thing occurred for the words colored or "cullu'ed" and Negro ussed by blacks and whites in the 1960s. Now many white people are still offended by the term Negro while blacks especially older blacks don't understand the problem, and of course younger whites think they are offending somebody when they use it. But there was a time and not that long ago when "black" was the "fighting word". ;) People don't realize that the word "gypsy" is considered very offensive to Romanies and the word Falasha is very offensive to the Beta Israel in Ethiopia. The latter of course was not originally offensive, but an ethnic name. [/qb][/QUOTE]Hummm, I guess I heard some rumours. Let's pretend I never mentioned it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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