Ethnic and religious slurs

thumb|237px|19th-century portrayal of the Huns as barbarians

members of various indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Southern Africa

thumb|Ancient Orient of the Roman Empire and its ecclesiastical order after the [[Council of Chalcedon, 451|300x300px]] The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term Occident, which refers to the Western world.

' ( , ) is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry. When speaking or writing about a singular woman in English, the word is ' (). The use of this term began in areas that later became the United States shortly after the Atlantic slave trade began. Although it has been employed in derogatory contexts, some mixed-race communities reject the claim that the term is inherently offensive and instead regard it as a descriptor that has been mischaracterized by individuals who are not of mixed-race origin. After the post Civil Rights Era, the term is now con

The term Yankee and its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States. Their various meanings depend on the context, and may refer to New Englanders, the Northeastern United States, the Northern United States, or to people from the US in general. Many of the earlier immigrants to the northeast from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and other regions of Europe used Yankees to refer to English settlers in New England.

thumb|upright=0.95|Cover of the Nazi propaganda brochure "Der Untermensch" ("The Subhuman"), 1942. The SS booklet depicted the natives of Eastern Europe as "subhumans". Untermensch (; plural: Untermenschen) is a German language word literally meaning 'underman', 'sub-man', or 'subhuman', which was extensively used by Germany's Nazi Party to refer to their opponents and non-Aryan people they deemed as inferior. It was mainly used against "the masses from the East", that is Jews, Roma, and Slavs (mainly ethnic Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Russians and Serbs).

1995 song

Mleccha () is a Sanskrit term referring to those of an incomprehensible speech, foreigners or invaders deemed distinct and separate from the Vedic tribes. In Vedic Brahmanical discourse, the term is used to refer to foreigners (anārya-s) who were considered outside the realms of Vedic dharma.

The Man, commonly known as the Nanman or Southern Man (, lit. Southern Barbarians), were ancient indigenous peoples who lived in inland South and Southwest China, mainly around the Yangtze River valley. In ancient Chinese sources, the term Nanman was used to collectively describe multiple ethnic groups, probably the predecessors of the modern Miao, Zhuang, and Dai peoples, and non-Chinese Sino-Tibetan groups such as the Jingpo and Yi peoples. It was an umbrella term that included any groups south of the expanding Huaxia civilization, and there was never a single polity that united these people

thumb|A photograph of a tinker by Ignacy Krieger, nineteenth century

Pallywood (a portmanteau of "Palestine" and "Hollywood") is a derogatory term used to falsely accuse Palestinians of staging scenes of suffering and civilian death in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It has been described as a conspiracy theory and a prominent element of Israeli disinformation in the conflict. Gazawood, a variant of the term, refers to similar footage originating in the Gaza Strip.

thumb|Ancient Occident of the Roman Empire The Occident is a term for the West, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Western world. It is the antonym of the term Orient, referring to the Eastern world. In English, it has largely fallen into disuse. The term occidental is often used to describe objects from the Occident but can be considered an outdated term by some. The term originated with geographical divisions mirroring the cultural divide between the Greek East and the Latin West, and the political divide between the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.

ethnic slur directed at people of Chinese descent, originated as the Japanese transliteration for word "China"

The English word squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women. Contemporary use of the term, especially by non-Natives, is considered derogatory, misogynist, and racist.

alt=A gathering of Filipinos holding a sign that identifies them as "Pinoy" |thumb|A gathering of Filipinos holding a sign with the word "Pinoy", 2016

ethnic slur intended for Pakistani in the UK

Redskin is a slang term for Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada. The term redskin underwent pejoration through the 19th to early 20th centuries and in contemporary dictionaries of American English, it is labeled as offensive, disparaging, or insulting. Although the term has almost disappeared from contemporary use, it remains in use as a sports team name. The most prominent was the NFL's Washington Redskins, who resisted decades of opposition before retiring the name in 2020 following renewed attention to racial justice in the wake of the murder of George Flo

thumb|A mestizo and Indigenous parents' child was a , traditionally. Casta painting from colonial Peru, 1770. thumb|Casta painting showing 16 hierarchically arranged, Mestizo|mixed-race groupings. The top left grouping uses cholo as a synonym for mestizo. Ignacio Maria Barreda, 1777. [[Real Academia Española de la Lengua, Madrid.]]

Keling () or Kling is an exonym to denote a Indian or someone deemed to have originated from South India. Originally a neutral term, since the mid-20th century it has been considered derogatory and an ethnic slur, and it is sometimes euphemistically referred to as the K-word. The term is used in parts of Southeast Asia, particularly the Malay Archipelago where there are a significant Tamil diaspora specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei but cognates exist in neighbouring countries as well.

thumb | right | alt=An indigenous Popoluca individual | An indigenous Popoluca individual Popoluca is a Nahuatl term for various indigenous peoples of southeastern Veracruz and Oaxaca. Many of them (about 30,000) speak languages of the Mixe–Zoque family. Others speak languages of the unrelated Oto-Manguean family, in which case the name in English and Spanish is generally spelled Popoloca.

Medieval demonym among the followers of the Latin Church of Western Christianity

Gook ( or ) is a derogatory term for people of East and Southeast Asian descent. Its origin is unclear, but it may have originated among U.S. Marines during the Philippine–American War (1899–1902). Historically, U.S. military personnel used the word "to refer to any dark-skinned foreigner, especially a non-European or non-American."Roediger, David. (March 1992).

Grecomans or Graecomans (; ; ; ; ; ) is a pejorative term used in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, and Albania to characterize Albanian-speaking, Aromanian-speaking, and Slavic-speaking people who self-identify as ethnic Greeks. In the region of Macedonia it appeared during the 19th and early 20th century nationalist propaganda campaigns and the struggle for Macedonia. The term generally means "pretending to be a Greek" and implies a non-Greek origin. Another meaning of the term is fanatic Greeks. The term has been also employed by ethnic Macedonians against Slavic Macedonians with a Greek

ethnic slur for Mainland Chinese people

thumb|An ethnographic illustration of a Chukhna peasant, 1799 Chukhna, Chukhnas, Chukhontsy (singular: Chukhonets (male), Chukhonka (female)) is an obsolete Russian term for Balto-Finnic peoples; particularly Finns, Estonians, Karelians, Ingrian Finns.

Mahound and Mahoun are variant forms of the name "Muhammad", often found in medieval and later European literature. The name has been used in the past by Christian writers to vilify the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was especially connected to the demonization of Muhammad as inspiring a false religion.

Spanish derogatory term for a Catalan person

Yanakuna were originally individuals in the Inca Empire who left the ayllu system and worked full-time at a variety of tasks for the Inca, the quya (Inca queen), or the religious establishment. A few members of this serving class enjoyed high social status and were appointed officials by the Sapa Inca. They could own property and sometimes had their own farms, before and after the conquest. The Spanish continued the yanakuna tradition developing it further as yanakuna entered Spanish service as Indian auxiliaries or encomienda Indians.

derogatory term mostly referring to Mexican immigrants to the USA

insult directed at athletes who represent Great Britain but are not British

Chilango () is a Mexican slang demonym for natives of Mexico City. The Royal Spanish Academy and the Mexican Academy of Language give the definition of the word as referring to something "belonging to Mexico City", in particular referring to people native to Mexico City.

The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnic, national, or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner.

Magyaron, also Magyarons (, , , , , ), is the name of a Transcarpathian ethno-cultural group, which has an openly Hungarian orientation. They renounced their native language, culture and religion and promoted Magyarization of the Rusyn and Ukrainian population. The Magyarons did not embrace the Ukrainian identity of the Ruthenians in Carpathian Ruthenia but maintained their separate Rusyn identity. From 1920 to 1940, the group promoted the idea of rejoining Subcarpathian Rus' to Hungary, where about 185 000 ethnic Hungarians lived at the time.

Ryssä () is a Finnish term for a Russian person, considered derogatory today. The term is also used as a collective term for Russians or Russia, and may refer to the Russian language. The neutral word for "Russian person" in modern Finnish is venäläinen, from Venäjä for "Russia".

Shuravi, shouravi, or shurwi (, ) is the Persian term for the word "Soviet" or just "Soviet Union", it has been derived from the word shura (), a word of Arabic origin meaning "council".

is a Japanese term referring to the various former colonial subjects of the Empire of Japan in the aftermath of World War II. This term particularly applied to Koreans and Taiwanese people, although it also sometimes was used for Ryukyuan people. The term is now generally considered antiquated and offensive.

thumb|right|200px|Monument to the Chilean roto, Plaza Yungay, Santiago thumb|350px|right|Example of recent expressions of Bolivian irredentism over territorial losses in the War of the Pacific (1879–1884). In the mural it is written; "What once was ours, will be ours once again", and "Hold on rotos (Chileans), because here come the Colorados of Bolivia" Roto, f. rota, (literally "torn" or "broken") is a term used to refer to Chilean people and in particular to the common Chilean. In Chile, from the start of the 20th century, it was applied with a negative classist connotation to poor city-dwel

mountain in Alberta, Canada

derogatory nickname for Kazakhs who do not strive to know the Kazakh language, do not observe/do not respect Kazakh culture and traditions

European slang for native inhabitants of India

derogatory term used in Kurdish culture

Creature in Chinese mythology

Bengali Muslim descendants

Wikimedia disambiguation page

Kanake (or Kanacke, Kanaa(c)k; pl. Kanacken or Kanaks/Kanax) is a German ethnic slur for non-Germanic-looking people, particularly those of Balkan, Turkish, Arab or Iranian origin.

Pajeet is an ethnic slur directed at Indians, particularly Hindus and Sikhs. The term first appeared on 4chan in 2015 and it has been used more widely since the early 2020s.

Beaner is a derogatory slur originally from the United States to refer to individuals from Mexico or of Mexican American heritage. It originates from the bean being a staple ingredient in Mexican cuisine.

Spic (or spick) is an ethnic slur used in the United States to describe Hispanic and Latino Americans or Spanish-speaking people from Latin America.

derogatory term for an Israeli man of Mizrahi ethnicity