Offensive words for people according to nationality or ethnicity

 You should be very careful about using these offensive words .

black
noun   a black person. This word is sometimes considered offensive.

colored
the American spelling of coloured

coloured
noun   a black person

coolie
noun   an insulting word used in the past for a worker with no special skills in China, India, and other parts of Asia

dago
noun   an extremely offensive word for a person from Italy, Spain, Portugal, or South America

Eskimo
noun   a member of the Inuit people. This word is now sometimes considered offensive.

feringhee
noun   someone from a foreign country, especially a white person. This word is sometimes used as an insult.

frog
noun   an insulting word for a French person

gipsy
a British spelling of gypsy

gook
noun   a very offensive word for someone from Asia

goy
noun   someone who is not Jewish

gringo
noun   an insulting word used by some people from South America for someone from another country who speaks English, especially someone from the US

gypsy
noun   a romany

half-breed
noun   an offensive word for a person who has parents of two different races, especially someone with one white parent and one native American or black parent. A more polite expression is person of mixed race.

half-caste
noun   an offensive word for someone who has one white parent and one black parent. A more polite expression is person of mixed race.

honky
noun   an insulting word for a white person

Indian
noun    a native American

Jerry
noun   an insulting word for a German

jock
noun   an insulting word for someone from Scotland

kafir
noun   a word meaning ‘non-believer’, used by some Muslims to describe someone who is not a Muslim

Kraut
noun   an insulting word for a German

mick
noun   an insulting word for an Irish person

mulatto
noun   an offensive word for someone who has one black parent and one white parent

native
noun   an offensive word for someone belonging to a group who lived in a place before Europeans arrived there

negress
noun   an offensive word for a black woman

negro
noun   a black person. This word is now considered offensive but until the second half of the 20th century it was an accepted word, used by black people as well as white.

nigger
noun   an extremely offensive word for a black person

non-white
adjective   used for describing people who are not considered to be members of the race of people who have pale skins. This word is usually considered offensive because it suggests that the white section of the population of the world is more important than any other.

oriental
noun   someone from eastern Asia, especially China or Japan. This word is now considered offensive.

Paddy
noun   an insulting word for an Irish person

pakeha
noun   a white person in New Zealand, especially someone whose family originally came from Europe

Paki
noun   an extremely offensive word for an Asian person

pickaninny
noun   a black child. This word is sometimes used by older white people but most people consider it offensive.

pom
noun
pommy
noun   a slightly insulting word for someone from the UK, especially someone from England

Pygmy
noun   a member of a people who are of less than average height. Most Pygmies live in Central Africa or Southeast Asia. This word is now sometimes considered offensive.
Red Indian
noun   a native American. This word is now considered to be offensive.

redskin
noun   an old word meaning a ‘Native American’

savage
adjective   an insulting way of describing someone or something from a culture that is not considered to be advanced. This is now considered offensive.

savage
noun  an insulting word for someone from a culture that is not considered to be advanced. This is now considered offensive.

spade
noun  a very offensive word for a black person

squaw
noun   an old word for a native american woman. This is now considered offensive.

Taffy
noun   an insulting word for someone from Wales

Uncle Tom
noun   an insulting word for a black person who the speaker thinks shows too much respect for white people. This word is used especially by other black people.

WASP
noun  White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: a word for people who are white and have money, power, and opportunities that other people do not have

wetback
noun  an offensive word for someone from Mexico who goes to live in the US

whitey
noun an offensive word for a white person

wog
noun an extremely offensive word for a black person

wop noun an insulting word for someone from the US

Yankee
noun someone from the US This word is often used as an insulting word for referring to an American by people who are not from the US

yid
noun an extremely offensive word for a Jewish person