The fact that some northern Italians use 'terroni' as a racial offense is quite funny

[lei.talk]

What means terroni? In portuguese its just people from the earth/land [sulistas].

[Gaditanian]

What means terroni? In portuguese its just people from the earth/land.

Terrone (Italian pronunciation: [terˈroːne]; plural terroni, feminine terrona)[a] is an Italian term to designate, in an often pejorative manner, people who dwell in Southern Italy or are of Southern Italian descent.

The term comes from an agent noun formed from the word terra (Italian for "land").

In fact it was historically used, after the Italian unification, to describe the landlords of the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, highlighting the fact that they profited from a type of land property, the latifundium, by which they used to own the land without ever working it; the word also stands for "person from a land [such as Southern Italy] prone to earthquakes".

Until the 1950s, terrone kept the classist meaning of "peasant", that is "person working the land (hence the word terra)"; at one point, even people migrating from the relatively more rural regions of Veneto, Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany to the industrialised Lombardy had been accordingly nicknamed terroni del nord ("Northern Terroni").

However, it was not until the Italian economic miracle, when a great number of Southerners migrated to the industrial centers of Northern Italy, that it began to be strictly used (often as a slur) to indicate people from Southern Italy. From terrone later derived Terronia "the land of the Terroni", and the adjective terronico "anything related to the Terroni".


I think that goes in a similar way for "trigueño" in Latinamerica but with a negative connotation.

[HelpOswald]

Go back to Afghanistan or whatever you are from

Sag Mal was hast du für ein Problem? Wenn Ich was hasse dann sind es ösis und Schweizer.

[Gondor]

Erstens ich bin kein ösi , zweitens anti-italiener sind immer Ausländer

[caviezel]

I find it funny that English call Irish "micks" since English and Irish are so closely related to the point they are essentially the same people. And Irish shouldn't have fought for their independence as they are so similar to English.
How does that sound to you?

[Jana]

I find it funny that English call Irish "micks" since English and Irish are so closely related to the point they are essentially the same people. And Irish shouldn't have fought for their independence as they are so similar to English.
How does that sound to you?

They aren't so close genetically.

[Universe]

They aren't so close genetically.

closer than northern and southern italy to each other...

[Jana]

closer than northern and southern italy to each other...

who isn't?

[Jana]

closer than northern and southern italy to each other...

who isn't?

[HelpOswald]

Erstens ich bin kein ösi , zweitens anti-italiener sind immer Ausländer

Hab Ich behauptet dass du einer bist? Für mich sind die eh gleich und schlimmer als alle Flüchtlinge.

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