To be honest, wog is not a term I’m super familiar with. I’ve almost never heard it IRL. I get the impression that it (and the people it refers to) may be more common in NSW and Vic than it is up here in Qld?
So my understanding is that in Australia it refers to southern Europeans—Italians, Greeks, etc. And that it has been substantially reclaimed, in that people to whom the term applies will often identify with it and use it themselves. It may or may not be offensive for someone else to use the term, depending on context.
In the UK, it apparently refers to black and South Asian people, and has not undergone the same reclamation process, so it is much less likely to be contextually acceptable.
To be honest, wog is not a term I’m super familiar with. I’ve almost never heard it IRL. I get the impression that it (and the people it refers to) may be more common in NSW and Vic than it is up here in Qld?
So my understanding is that in Australia it refers to southern Europeans—Italians, Greeks, etc. And that it has been substantially reclaimed, in that people to whom the term applies will often identify with it and use it themselves. It may or may not be offensive for someone else to use the term, depending on context.
In the UK, it apparently refers to black and South Asian people, and has not undergone the same reclamation process, so it is much less likely to be contextually acceptable.
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