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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's certainly the way it was used in Britain, at least up to the 1960s. I hope that nobody believes that Agatha Christie was being deliberately racist, for example, in titling a book "Ten Little Niggers" in 1939.
There was a particular shade of brown that was always known as "nigger brown" in my childhood (in the late 1960s) and there was absolutely no derogatory meaning associated with the name.
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Yes, and I remember there was a brand of jam in Britain, called Robinson's, that used a
golliwogg as it's logo. The word "wog" has long been used, in Britain and Australia, as a derogatory slur. Nevertheless, I at least, have always considered the word "nigger" to be a slur, clearly others differ.
I also read
Biggles books, (when I was sent to school in England for a year at the beginning of the 60s), and dare say they would be considered non-PC today, for the same reason. I feel sure that's where I first learned about the Gobi Desert. I suppose I must have read,
Biggles in the Gobi, so perhaps there was some merit in them after all.