Sorry, Irish Wpers.

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Anyways, I'm going to write a story. One of my characters has a problem with the Irish.

So does anyone know any degradatory terms for Irish people?

((Besides 'paddy'))

Mick

Check this out (it might be of use to you...):

http://www.answers.com/topic/offensive- ... ationality

Taig is a very offensive word I think, as is Tim, Papist, et al. When's it set?

There's also the ever popular term of 'Bogtrotter'.

I was just looking through the link by DrowningMedusa. I found it interesting, I also feel better since I have a anxiety, about somehow accidentally calling someone from a foreign country a offensive term without realizing it. So now it's like, I know what not to say.

They mentioned that Moishe was used as a term in Argentina, to describe Jews..like that alot of them were named Moishe. There was a holiday episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, where they had a imaginary Menorah character named Moishe. He'd keep annoying Bloo, by reminding him that Jewish kids get 8 days for Hannukah, where Christmas is only 1 day. It's funnier now that I get what the name was a reference to.

((Thanks, everyone for the replies. Keep 'em coming.))