Is the word GWEILO a racist slur?

• toothie

  6 Feb 03, 05:27

  Is it racist? Does one have to speak the language to formulate a balanced judgment on this word?
  
  
• kohanson

  6 Feb 03, 07:22

  emm, what word is this?
• sdaddy03

  6 Feb 03, 09:48

  Originally posted by toothie:

  Is it racist? Does one have to speak the language to formulate a balanced judgment on this word?
  
  

  Gweilo and ang moh are the normal references to caucasians. The insulting word which I normally used to refer to them is ALBINO.
• toothie

  6 Feb 03, 16:05

  Originally posted by sdaddy03:

  Gweilo and ang moh are the normal references to caucasians. The insulting word which I normally used to refer to them is ALBINO.

  
• toothie

  6 Feb 03, 16:08

  Originally posted by kohanson:

  emm, what word is this?

  gwei-lo is just as racist as: "chink", nigger, boy, kyke, wog, wop, spic etc.
  
  And in all the countries where those terms are used daily by racist scumbags, the users would deny that there was anything wrong with the terminology. The fact is that westerners in HK are confident enough to find the term amusing and can laugh it off.