Nigger

Nigger ( in African American English also Nigga niggar, Niggah or Nigguh, in southern pronunciation also Niggra, Nigra and Nighe ) is a racist denotierte and extremely derogatory term for people with dark skin color ( see also Black ). It is used to make a social degradation and express a hierarchical relationship.

Origin and use

The term developed in the United States, as there black, abducted from Africa had people do slave labor, from the Spanish word negro ( "black", from the Latin niger of the same meaning ) about engl. negro or negroes to negar and finally nigger. Probably also the French word nègre played ( also: "black", from the Latin niger) in the development of a role.

The word was in the United States the name of the whites for their black slaves. Also covered is the use by the British colonial rulers in their Indian and other colonies.

Spears is in a collection of nearly 20 examples that prepending nigger before common everyday names whose meaning in an insulting or derogatory form changed (example: nigger - steak for a slice of liver).

But it is not only in English, a loaded word, but is also sometimes used in German as a swear word. The foul language book by Pfeiffer listed in the 1996 version:

" nigger ( equivalent of American " nigger" ) contemptuous term for a member of the Negroid race group, especially in regard to the ancient meaning of " Negro slave " "

In general German dictionaries it is known as a derogatory term.

Slang in the U.S. hip- hop culture

As with some rough words and original insults find this quite a degree of acceptance, as long as they are used in groups of friends or among those affected. This is also called nigger, use the African American among themselves quite friendly - Turning. In many texts of rap music this is documented. Parts of the hip-hop and youth culture, want to know the name as an ironic appreciation in the sense of a friendly insult understood against friends or buddies. All major lexicons exhibit However, when used by whites, continue to be highly offensive swear word out. ( " N- word" ger ) circumscribed Occasionally the term in the United States as the N -word. In particular, wealthier young white people who only make use of the black subculture, are in the hip- hop scene often than Wigger (or Whigger ) denotes ( portmanteau word from white [ white] and nigger ).

Controversy over use of the term in the United States

In the United States the use of the word is viewed critically. Thus, to be replaced by " slave" in new editions of Mark Twain's two most famous books about 219 so-called " N- words ", as intended instead of " Injun " ( to German as: " redskin " ) are referred to as "Indian ". After many schools partially books in the factory faithful version have not been approved for teaching, expressed inter alia, the African-American writer and civil rights activist Ishmael Reed review: " Why do not they censor the black authors that use the word? Then we also censor song lyrics? And hip-hop as we know it, would be dead nigger "Jim" In addition, the novel character of the have " more depth and profile as many blacks that they would find today in film, theater and literature. Rather than censor individual words, those responsible should read the books better, to understand it at all, he called in the Wall Street Journal.

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