"okay cool English specific term for darker colored foreigner ethnicity people but apparently its a derogatory racial slur so why would someone identify themselves as one?"

Serious question by the way, is that like your cultures version of "we've appropriated a word you used to insult our kind and now pridefully incorporate it as a positive association word into our minority culture, and theres nothing you racist squares can do about it" or am I missing something?

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm using "wog" as a direct translation to Portuguese "carcamano" (Italian descendant, mildly derogatory). It's directed towards my own group* so I'm outright reclaiming it.

*JK I'm a mutt. Proud to be one BTW. But yeah, carcamani in my family all the way down.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

In Australia it's an acceptable term, eg the movie "The Wog Boy". In London it's akin n to the n-word and not appropriate, I think London uses it as an abbreviation of golliwog, those racist dolls.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Learn something new every day, thanks for sharing the context :)

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

its a derogatory racial slur so why would someone identify themselves as one?"

Reclaiming slurs is cool. Less power to those who would use them against us. One of the reasons I don't agree with the trend of constantly moving towards whatever the politically correct language of the day is. We're just handing more insults to the assholes.

See https://sh.itjust.works/post/31758327 for related discussion