Lemon negro
Lemon Negro is a derogatory and racist Berolinism for people of the East Asian type.
Definition
The swear word is made up of the term lemon , which with the yellow color of the fruit alludes to the skin color of people of Asian descent (especially Chinese or Japanese ), and the term negro , a derogatory term with a racist connotation for black people , which is used for this to undertake a social degradation and to express a hierarchical relationship. The literature locates the origin of the expression in Berlin .
In Austria
In Austria , too , the yellow color of lemons was associated with people of Asian origin. In a popular ORF program entitled Helmi , children are supposed to learn rules of behavior in a playful way from the puppet figure of the same name, a little white alien. The intro of the program sang in the 1980s "Negroes on coffee beans, Chinese on lemons, hunters on melons, you can't see well."
In the English language
The corresponding term in the English language of North America and South Africa is yellow nigger .
Individual evidence
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↑ Wolfgang Melzer : Synonym dictionary of colloquial language, related phrases and insults . 2015, ISBN 3-7386-7040-8 , p. 15.
Carmen Böker, Silvia Meixner : How do I become a Berliner? In 55 steps to becoming a capital city dweller. Bostelmann and Siebenhaar, 2002, ISBN 3-9341-8990-3 , p. 169.
Entry Zitronenneger . In: Peter Schlobinski : Berlin Dictionary. The current vocabulary of the Berliner. University of Hanover , Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7605-8640-6 . - ↑ Helmi Lied from the early 1980s (from 0:00:13) on YouTube
- ↑ Yuri Dolgopolov: A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations. McFarland, 2016, ISBN 0-7864-5995-6 , p. 338.
- ^ Gail Fincham: Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in post-apartheid South Africa. In: Ohio University Press, 2012, ISBN 0--8214-4414-X, p. 113.