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2021年1月26日发(作者：章杞)
Racial Discrimination in English Language

Language
is
an
important
part
of
culture.
As
a
human
phenomenon,
Racial
discrimination
is
associated
with
language
intimately.
Therefore,
as
races
with
high
ethnocentrism,
American
and
English
put
a
lot
of
race
discrimination
in
English
vocabularies.
In English history, deep conflict exist between English and Dutch. A lot of battles
had broken out between the two races because of the pursuit of

hegemony of sea. The
two people hate each other from generation to generation. Their hatred had melted with
English vocabularies. A mount of vocabularies related with Dutch nearly have negative
meaning.
“
Dutch
act
”

means
suicide,
escape,
or
humiliating
things.
“
Dutch
courage
”

means
barbarous
act
or
act
on
impulse.
“
Dutch
bargain
”

means
unfair
trade
after
drunkenness.
What
’
s
more,
words
related
with
Dutch
people
are
unspeakably
bad.
“
Dutch widow
”
means prostitute.
“
Dutch husband/ wife
”
means sexual model equipment.
“
Dutchman
”

means
somebody
who
is
not
people.
“
I
’
m
a
Dutchman
if
I
did
it
”

means
“
I
’
m not a human if I did it
”
. The Racial discrimination about Dutch is deeply melted into
English words. Therefore, Dutch is really a negative word in English vocabularies.

Besides
Dutch,
French
is
also
discriminated
by
English
because
of
English
humiliating history.
In
1066,
French
emperor
William
conquered
England
and
set
up
feudalism
in
English.
After
his
death,
his
generations
still
took
charge
of
England.
Hatred
began
to
take place in the hearts of English. Which made the hatred more deep was the complex
and
long
Hundred
Year
’
s
War.
The
complex
hatred
between
the
two
races
affected
English vocabularies deeply. English leaf their hatred in their vocabularies related with
French.
In
English,
“
French
disease
”

means
syphilis.
“
French
letter
”

means
condom.
“
French novels/print
”
means erotic novels/print.
“
French way
”
means oral sex. Therefore,
words
related
with
French
is
associated
with
vulgar
or
erotic
things.
“
French
lesson
”

means
sexual
skills.
This
term
is
related
with
erotic
thing.
“
French
leave
”

means
somebody
leaves
banquet
without
showing
goodbye
to
host.
This
term
is
related
with
vulgar act.
“
Excuse my French
”
means
“
pardon me for my dirty words
”
. This term is also
related with vulgar act. Words associated with French are connected with English history
deeply. Their hatred endows these words with special meanings.
In
addition
to
French
and
Dutch,
Chinese
is
also
discriminated
in
English
vocabularies. American discriminate Chinese because of immigration.
In
the
middle
of
19
th

century,
a
huge
number
of
Chinese
immigrants
rushed
into
North
America.
However,
most
of
them
lived
for
manual
work.
Therefore,
American
regarded Chinese as
simple-minded men in
lower class.
In the
end of 19
th
century and
beginning
of
20
th

century,
more
Chinese
immigrants
settled
down
in
American,
so
American
began
to
excluded
Chinese
because
of
their
competition
in
social
resource.
Discrimination
on
Chinese
is
also
embodied
in
English
vocabularies.
“
Chink
”

is
a
insulting word which means Chinese immigrants.
“
Chinese
”
is also a word which refers
to heroin.
“
China- man
’
s chance
”
means hopeless or nearly hopeless.
“
China syndrome
”

refers
to
destructive
accident.
“
Shanghai
”

is
the
name
of
a
Chinese
city.
However,
in
English,
it
also
means
“
force
somebody
to
do
something
by
swindling
or
violence
”
.
What
’
s
more,
American
think
Chinese
language
and
Chinese
action
are
odd,
so
in