Racial Discrimination in English Language

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1、RacialDiscriminationinEnglishLanguageLanguageisanimportantpartofculture.Asahumanphenomenon,Racialdiscriminationisassociatedwithlanguageintimately.Therefore,asraceswithhighethnocentrism,AmericanandEnglishputalotofracediscriminationinEnglishvocabularies.InEnglishhistory,deepconfl

2、ictexistbetweenEnglishandDutch.Alotofbattleshadbrokenoutbetweenthetworacesbecauseofthepursuitofhegemonyofsea.Thetwopeoplehateeachotherfromgenerationtogeneration.TheirhatredhadmeltedwithEnglishvocabularies.AmountofvocabulariesrelatedwithDutchnearlyhavenegativemeaning.“Dutchact”m

3、eanssuicide,escape,orhumiliatingthings.“Dutchcourage”meansbarbarousactoractonimpulse.“Dutchbargain”meansunfairtradeafterdrunkenness.What’smore,wordsrelatedwithDutchpeopleareunspeakablybad.“Dutchwidow”meansprostitute.“Dutchhusband/wife”meanssexualmodelequipment.“Dutchman”meansso

4、mebodywhoisnotpeople.“I’maDutchmanifIdidit”means“I’mnotahumanifIdidit”.TheRacialdiscriminationaboutDutchisdeeplymeltedintoEnglishwords.Therefore,DutchisreallyanegativewordinEnglishvocabularies.BesidesDutch,FrenchisalsodiscriminatedbyEnglishbecauseofEnglishhumiliatinghistory.In1

5、066,FrenchemperorWilliamconqueredEnglandandsetupfeudalisminEnglish.Afterhisdeath,hisgenerationsstilltookchargeofEngland.HatredbegantotakeplaceintheheartsofEnglish.WhichmadethehatredmoredeepwasthecomplexandlongHundredYear’sWar.ThecomplexhatredbetweenthetworacesaffectedEnglishvoc

6、abulariesdeeply.EnglishleaftheirhatredintheirvocabulariesrelatedwithFrench.InEnglish,“Frenchdisease”meanssyphilis.“Frenchletter”meanscondom.“Frenchnovels/print”meanseroticnovels/print.“Frenchway”meansoralsex.Therefore,wordsrelatedwithFrenchisassociatedwithvulgaroreroticthings.“

7、Frenchlesson”meanssexualskills.Thistermisrelatedwitheroticthing.“Frenchleave”meanssomebodyleavesbanquetwithoutshowinggoodbyetohost.Thistermisrelatedwithvulgaract.“ExcusemyFrench”means“pardonmeformydirtywords”.Thistermisalsorelatedwithvulgaract.WordsassociatedwithFrenchareconnec

8、tedwithEnglishhistorydeeply.Theirhatredendowstheseword