So this might be common knowledge, but I found it interesting. The racial slur gook came
about during the Korean war. The Koreans’ word for foreigner is waygooken, but their word for
Americans is megook. So when US soldiers would walk through villages the Koreans would run
up shouting “Megook! Megook!” The soldiers’ reaction was, yes, we know you are a gook.
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