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To: bentway who wrote (399309)	7/16/2008 5:18:37 PM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1578945

>>"One story claims it was picked up by GI's during the Korean war and became an insult in Vietnam." >How would you like to be called a blocky, stocky Korean when you were really a svelte, stylin' Vietnamese? Don't hold me to this, but I'm pretty sure I saw it used as a derisive term in quotes from the war in the Phillipines, which would mean it long predates the Vietnam war. EDIT: Yup, that's right: en.wikipedia.org According to Online Etymology Dictionary, "1899, U.S. military slang for 'Filipino' during the insurrection there, probably from a native word, or imitative of the babbling sound of their language to American ears (cf. barbarian). The term goo-goo eyes 'soft, seductive eyes' was in vogue c.1900 and may have contributed to this somehow. Extended over time to 'Nicaraguan,' 'any Pacific Islander' (World War II), 'Korean' (1950s), 'Vietnamese' and 'any Asian' (1960s)." -Z