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‘Dago’ is a mispronunciation of ‘Diego’, meaning that Italians were being lumped in together with Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. Wog is the initials for ‘wily oriental gentleman’, a common term used around 1900 to imply that Asians were ‘naturally’ sneaky or untrustworthy. Guinea, I think, is meant to imply Italians were African looking, as in from the country of… Notice how in two of these examples the greatest insult is to imply that someone white is not really white.

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