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What american soldiers used to call the Vietnamese civilians and soldiers back in 'Nam.
Them filthy zipperhead gooks had me 1-5. Luckily my CAR-15 gunned em down.
A racial slur for East and Southeast Asians; essentially the equivalent of the n-word. First used in the Philippine-American War, it was used as a term for enemy combatants before repeated and widespread use in Asian wars (namely the Korean and Vietnam Wars) made it a racial slur. In the USA, it is more commonly - but not exclusively - directed at the Vietnamese. Often erroneously thought to have originated in the Korean War after soldiers misheard "mi-guk" (Korean for America) as "me gook"; use of the word "gook" dates back to the late 19th or early 20th century.
White supremacist hater: "Send them niggers and gooks back to where they came!"
An offensive term used by Presidential Candidate John McCaine to describe his captors in Vietnam.He is a republican which means we'll never hear anyone on Fox News mention this for there's no explanation for this racist term.
"I hate those Gooks"-John McCaine