For "indian"

Slur	Represents	Reason & Origins
Apna	Indians	Hindi/Punjabi slang meaning "our guy," and referring to a male of their own race. "Apni" refers to Indian females. Used in areas of Punjabi immigrants.
Babar	Indians	From the character Babar the Elephant. First appeared in the book "Babar the King" published in 1963 and made into a popular animated HBO show in the early 90's. It's about an Indian elephant character growing up.
BFI	Native Americans	The "Big Fucking Indian" at the back of the bar you dont want to piss off.
Bhindu	Indians	Similar to "hillbilly" or simpleton. Bindu is a Sanskrit word meaning drop. The word bindi, which is the typical "red dot" worn on the forehead of Indian men and women, comes from this word.
Bipty	Indians	When an Indian gives you change at 7-11, they sound like they're saying, "Here is one dollar and bipty cents."
Blackfoot	French	Possible reference to French-Indian War and/or WW1 and the general sense of French cowardess during wars. Since they had no boots due to the trenches eating them away, when they ran their feet became all covered in mud. Or French born in North Africa.
Bronx Indian	Jews	Probably not derogatory, possibly self-referential. Most likely from sometime between the turn of the century and the early sixties. I have only found one reference to it, but I believe it is most likely from the fact that in the first half of the twentieth century, for a period almost fifty percent of the Bronx was Jewish, thus they were seemingly like the native population of the Bronx.
Bugre	Brazilians	Means Indian in Portuguese
Casino	Native Americans	In reference to the many casinos popping up on Indian reservations all over America
Chindian	Nepalese	Nepal is a really small country in between China and India, hence Chindian. Could also just as easily refer to a Chinese/Indian mix.
Dholia	Whites	Indian for white person
Dot/Dot-Head	Indians	Refers to the "bindi" (dot) on their foreheads. The dot's significance relates to the marital status of an indian female. Red dot: married; Black dot: single.
Eskimo	Native Americans	Eskimo was once acceptable in Canada, and still is almost anywhere else. It means "raw meat eater." Eskimo orginated from southern Indian tribes describing the northern Inuit, whom they were constantly fighting. Inuit take offence to being called Eskimos, despite the fact that they do eat raw meat.
FBI	Native Americans	Full Blooded Indian. Used in the movie Thunderheart. Not really a slur.
Fort Injun/Indian	Native Americans	A term used to represent the [traitor?] Indians who hid behind the safety of the forts.
Gandhi	Indians	Famous Indian.
Habib	Indians	Indian name. Used in the TV show Married With Children where a gas attendant was an Indian.
Hadji	Indians	Reference to a youthful East Indian side-kick character named Hadji from the '70s Saturday-morning cartoon, "Johnny Quest"
Half-a-gas-can	Native Americans	Comes from the name "Athabaskan", an Alaskan Indian group.
Indian	Native Americans	Indians come from India, not North/South America. Offensive because original American settlers from Europe completely misnamed them.
Indonigger	Indians	Indian who tries to be black, or is darker in skin.
Injun	Native Americans	Pioneer-related term dates back to the 19th century during the Western Expansion. Probably comes from country people who could not pronounce the word Indian correctly.
Kala	Blacks	Indian word for the color black. Used by Indians as a slur for black people.
Kalu	Indians	Indian acting like a black person
Knee Jerk	Native Americans	Subset of Native American indicating person who was at Wounded Knee incident in South Dakota in the '70s; Member of A.I.M. (American Indian Movement)
Kumar	Indians	From the movie 'Harlad and Kumar go to White Castle', Kumar is the Indian character
Malabari	Malayali/Indian	Popular slang used in the MiddleEast to describe the Malayalam speaking people from Kerala state in India. Malabar which is a part of Kerala used to have economic ties with the MiddleEast because of the spice trade. However the term Malabari is now considered a derogatory word.
Nigdu	Mixed Races	Nigger + Hindu. Half black, half Indian. Also an Indian trying to act black.
Nit	Native Americans	Chivington ordered him men: "kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice" just before the Sand Creek massacre in 1864. This was an explination as to why troops were ordered to kill Indian children.
Pindunderjip	Indians	From the joke; What is an East Indian that got hit by a truck called? Answer; Pindunbderjip or Pinned under jeep.
Poon	Hindus	Punjab as in, popular Indian restaurant names, slang for punjab is poon
Punjab	Indians	Punjab is the Indian character from "Little Orphan Annie." Also represents the Punjab region of India (near the Punjab river). When the British took over India, they used it as a derogatory term for the natives there.
Reset	Indians	Comes from the common red dot on an Indian's forehead, resembling the reset button on many electronics
Sambo	Indians	Derives from the traditional children's story, "The Story of Little Black Sambo" about an Asian Indian who had dark skin.
Spic	Hispanics	Short for Hispanic. Might also be acronym of SPanish, Indian, and Colored, coming from the mixed breeds that resulted from the union of Spanish colonists, Indian natives, and Black (colored) slaves. From the OED. spic A. n. a. A contemptuous and offensive name for a Spanish-speaking native of Central or South America or the Caribbean; a spiggoty. - It dates back (in print) to at least 1913. However, I understand it first applied to Italian immigrants in the late 1800s - More information: 1938 Amer. Speech XIII. 311/1 "Spiggoty" originated in Panama during Construction Days, and is assumed to be a corruption of 'spikee de' in the sentence 'No spikee de English'
Thank You Come Again	Indians	A phrase made popular by stereotypical Indian convenience store owner Apu on The Simpsons.
Tira-flecha	Latin Americans	Racial term mostly used by Cubans or White Hispanics referring to the Mestizo peoples (or mixed Indian/Spanish) of Central or South america (since Cubans have no Indian ancestry). Means "One who throws arrows."
Windian	Whites	White people who try to act like they're Indian
WOPaho	Native Americans	Any person claiming to be part Navaho Indian, but are without papers or pedigree showing it. Similar To Wigger In Some Respects. A couple of Kootenai Indians in my home town called some people this once, and I heard it as a boy. Naturally, I asked... "You know, there's always someone claimng to be part Navaho, but they have no papers..."
Yankee	Americans	Slang used primarily by the British. Also used in the former Confederate states to refer to people of the Union states. Origins can be traced to the Ottowa Indians calling the English, "Yang-gees," which morphed into "Yankees" by the British who then took that home after the French and Indian war in 1763.
Zambo	Mixed Races	Indian/African mix.

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