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To: eastforker

“Do you even have a clue where the word gook originated from? Hint, it really isn’t derogatory at all.”

Do you even have a clue how the word is actually used? Hint, it is really derogatory, even if the word started as a term for hugs and kisses (which it didn’t).


53 posted on 04/26/2014 7:54:34 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Fuzz
I believe "gook" comes from the Korean word for "country" or "state"--and is related to "kuo" in Chinese and "quốc" in Vietnamese, which mean the same thing.
55 posted on 04/26/2014 8:07:56 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fuzz

Wrong. In the Korean language, the term for Korean people is Hangook, for whites it is megook. As American troops arrived on the Korean peninsula back in the early fifties, traveling through small villages the korean people shouted megook, megook. That is how the term originated. That is your history lesson for the day.


57 posted on 04/26/2014 8:12:34 AM PDT by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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