Why do Americans call Polish people Polacks? I honestly never got this..?
Answer:
It is derogatory, but so many people use it that it's no more insulting than calling an Irish a Mc.
Probably for the same reason people call people from Scotland 'Scots' or 'Scottish' - two different names for the same nationality.
Pollack
Lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
key word "white"...
Thats why you should have stayed in school instead you dropped out.
Uh, actually it's spelled "Polak" and that's their actual nationality. I should know, considering I'm Polish myself.
Well, in Ukraine and Russia they are called the same and there is the word "polac" in Polish language.
it's supposed to be insulting... hmmm why don't the Polish people go around calling each other pollack? Oh, wait, that's racist.
every ethnic group has slang words for them and of course jokes... pollocks, micks, degos or wops, spicks, chinks. most of the time these are used in a derogatory manner.
Thats what the questioner is referring to.
Of course he is desperately grasping for something to use to turn the attention away from what this particular category is about. And that is the illegal immigration problem, and it isnt people from Poland that are the problem.
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