Chisholm wrote in post #10686972
I know you said it was for background purposes, but did you need to actually quote what he called him again, 30 years later......was the reference not the one-liner " Pickle etc "and not the actual show, of which the pics have no connection whatsoever, so why regale us of its "hilarious" storyline.......?
Tom
Here we have a classic example of the differences in cultures. That word is not used and/or looked at in quite the same fashion here as it is in other parts of the world.
Do a Wiki search on the word Chisholm. It states...
"In Australia, 'wog' was once used as a slang term for illnesses such as colds, the flu or malaria. This usage has been in existence since at least the early 1940s. It is recorded in the 1941 Popular Dictionary of Australian Slang by S. J. Baker as meaning a germ or parasite.[3]
Another use of the term, which dates from 1909, was to describe insects and grubs, particularly if they were hunting insects or regarded as being unpleasant in some way.[3]
[edit] Ethnic slur
Today 'wog' is most commonly used as an ethnic slur, and this has largely superseded the other slang meanings. As in British English 'wog' refers to dark-skinned people, but whereas in Britain it was applied to African-Caribbean and South Asian immigrants from the 1960s onwards, in Australia, which had few migrants from these regions, it was instead applied to Post World War II European migrants from Southern Europe/Southeastern Europe. Unlike most other western countries, the definition of 'white' in a racial sense in Australia is much more restricted (see white Australian).
The "ethnic" character of the term "wog" came into popular usage from the 1950s and 1960s, when Australia accepted immigration of Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs (Bosnians/Croats/Serbs/Macedonians) and Maltese who contrasted with the dominant Northern and Western European stock of the Australian population.
Although originally used pejoratively, the term has come to be used more affectionately, and has even been embraced by the groups the term is used to describe. For example, the term was often used in popular Australian comedy Kingswood Country between 1979–84 and was used in a sense that was sometimes pejorative, affectionate or neutral. The word was also prominently used in the popular early 1990s stage show Wogs Out of Work, created by Greek-AustralianNick Giannopoulos and Spanish-Australian Simon Palomares. The production was followed on television with Acropolis Now, starring Giannopoulos, Palomares, George Kapiniaris and Mary Coustas, and in film with The Wog Boy and Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos."
