Guinea (ethnic slur)
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Guinea is an offensive ethnic slur for someone of Italian descent in the United States.
It derives from "Guinea Negro", which came from the popular belief that Italians were part African because of their often darker skin, and possibly from the belief that the Moors once dominated parts of Italy.
As a word, it is sometimes considered as offensive to Italian Americans as Nigger is to African Americans. Is used in conjunction with other deragatory terms such as Dago, Wop, Greaseball, and Goombah.
In popular culture. In the movie The Godfather, one of the characters beats his wife and calls her a "Spoilt Guinea Brat."
