The following is a list of ethnic slurs or ethnophaulisms or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnicity or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner.

Some of the terms listed below (such as "gringo", "yank", etc.) can be used in casual speech without any intention of causing offense. The connotation of a term and prevalence of its use as a pejorative or neutral descriptor varies over time and by geography.

For the purposes of this list, an ethnic slur is a term designed to insult others on the basis of race, ethnicity, or nationality. Each term is listed followed by its country or region of usage, a definition, and a reference to that term.

Ethnic slurs may also be produced as a racial epithet by combining a general-purpose insult with the name of ethnicity, such as "dirty Jew", "Russian pig", etc. Other common insulting modifiers include "dog", "filthy", etc. However, such terms are not included in this list.

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|Kaew (แกว)
|Northeastern Thailand
|Vietnamese people
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|rowspan="3"|Kaffir, kaffer, kaffir, kafir, kaffre, kuffar
|Arabian Peninsula
|Non-Muslims (regardless of race).
|Also caffer or caffre. from Arabic kafir meaning "disbeliever".
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|South Africa
|Black and Cape Coloured or Coloured people
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|Members of a people inhabiting the Hindu Kush mountains of north-east Afghanistan
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|Kaffir boetie
|South Africa
|Black and Cape Coloured or Coloured sympathizers during apartheid
|Meaning "Kaffir brothers", it is analogous to "negro lover" in English. The term is outdated and no longer used.
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|Kalar
|Burmese
|Muslim citizens who are "black-skinned" or "undesirable aliens."
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|Kalia, Kalu, Kallu
|Hindi
|Darkskinned people
|Literally means blackie generally used for black-skinned people in India, can also have racist overtone when referring to Africans.
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|Katwa, Katwe
|Hindi
|Muslim males
|Word used to describe Muslim males for having a circumicised penis as mentioned in the Khitan of Islam.
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|Kanaka
|Australia
|Pacific Islanders
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|Kanake
|German
|Turkish people, foreigners in general
|Originally used to refer to Native Polynesians. To some extent re-appropriated.
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|Kano
|Philippines
|White Americans
|Usually used in Filipino (Tagalog) or other Philippine languages. Shortened from the Filipino word "Amerikano". It usually refers to Americans, especially a stereotypical male white American, which may extend to western foreigners that may fit the stereotype which the speaker is not familiar with, especially those from Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
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|Kaouiche, Kawish
|Canadian French
|Native Americans
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|Katsap, kacap, kacapas
|Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Russia
|Russian people
|, ; self-deprecating usage by Russians.
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|Kebab
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|Muslims, usually of Arabian or Turkic descent.
|Its origin is a Serbian music video that was recorded in 1993 during the Yugoslav Wars but the phrase has spread globally amongst far-right groups and the alt-right as a meme between 2006 and 2008. Famously Turkish internet user parodied the sentiment of Serbian nationalists online, with a satirical incoherent rant that ended with the phrase "remove kebab" being repeated. Although the meme initially intended to parody racism, this meaning behind the meme was lost once it became common in alt-right discourse.
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|Keko
|Turkey
|Kurdish men
|Originally neutral Kurdish word meaning man, pal, or friend, but became derogatory among Turkish speakers.
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|Keling
|India
| Malaysians, Singaporeans and Indonesians 
|In Indonesian, the term can be applied to any person with dark complexion, not only of Indian descent, but also to native Indonesians with darker complexion and Africans. The term is derived from the ancient Indian region of Kalinga, where many immigrants to countries further east originated.
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|Kemosabe/Kemosahbee
|United States 
|Native Americans
|The term used by the fictional Native American sidekick Tonto as the "Native American" name for the Lone Ranger in the American television and radio programs The Lone Ranger.
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|Khach (), Khachik ()
|Russia
|Peoples of the Caucasus, particularly North Caucasus and Armenians
|From Armenian խաչ khach, meaning cross (cf. khachkar). Khatchik is also an Armenian given name coming from the same root. Khachik is considered milder and happens to be used in neutral contexts.
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|Kharkhuwa
|India
|Assamese people
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|Khokhol ()
|Russia
|Ukrainian people
|Derived from a term for a traditional Cossack-style haircut.
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|Khuli (s.) / Amakhula (p.)
|South Africa
|A person or people Indian heritage.
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|Kike or kyke
|United States
|Ashkenazi Jewish people
|Possibly from kikel, Yiddish for "circle". Immigrant Jews who couldn't read English often signed legal documents with an "O" (similar to an "X", to which Jews objected because "X" also symbolizes a cross).
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|Kimchi
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|Korean people
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|Kıro
|Turkey
|Kurdish men
|A word used to describe rude and hairy men, pejoratively refers to the Kurds.
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|Knacker
|Ireland
|Irish Travelers
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|Kolorad
|Ukraine
|Pro-Russian separatists and Russian invaders
|In reference to Russian St. George ribbon whose coloration resembles the stripes of the Colorado beetle.
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|Krankie
|England
|Scottish people
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|Krakkemut
|Denmark
|Arabs, Middle Easterns
|While originally being used against greenlanders, it is now mostly used against Middel Easterns and Arabs. The word comes from the greenlandic word "Qaqqamut" meaning "to the mountain, up the mountain", however, the danish people began to pick up the word as an aggressive slur, and used it against the greenlanders, and slowly, it became a slur against the more frequent Arab and Middle Eastern immigrants in Denmark. 
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|Kraut
|United States, Canada,  Commonwealth
|German people
|Derived from sauerkraut, used most specifically during World War II.
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|Kuronbō (黒ん坊)
|Japan
|Black people 
|A derogatory that literally means "darkie" or "nigga" in Japanese. The term has been used as a racial slur against black people, particularly during Japan's colonial era.
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|Kkamdungi (깜둥이)
|South Korea
|Black people 
|Korean for nigga or nigger.
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See also

 :Category:Sex- and gender-related slurs
 Fighting words
 Graphic pejoratives in written Chinese
 Hate speech
 List of disability-related terms with negative connotations
 List of ethnic group names used as insults
 List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity
 List of LGBT slang terms
 List of regional nicknames
 List of religious slurs
 List of terms used for Germans
 Lists of pejorative terms for people
 Term of disparagement
 Xenophobia
 Xenophobia in the United States
 Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic
 wikt:Category:English ethnic slurs
 Wiktionary category: English derogatory terms
 wikt:Appendix:English terms for outsiders

References

Bibliography

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 South Africa Lexicon 2019. Available at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54257189e4b0ac0d5fca1566/t/5cc0a0682be8f70001f10300/1556127851372/SouthAfricaLexicon2019_v3.pdf
 
 
 

Further reading
 Adhikari, Mohamed, editor. Burdened by Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa. UCT Press, 2013, pp. 69, 124, 203 ISBN 978-1-92051-660-4 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/c0a95c41-a983-49fc-ac1f-7720d607340d/628130.pdf. 
 Burchfield, Robert. "Dictionaries and Ethnic Sensibilities." In The State of the Language, ed. Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks, University of California Press, 1980, pp. 15–23.
 Croom, Adam M. "Racial Epithets: What We Say and Mean by Them". Dialogue 51 (1):34–45 (2008)
 Henderson, Anita. "What's in a Slur?" American Speech, Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 52–74 in Project MUSE
 Kennedy, Randall. Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Pantheon, 2002)
 Mencken, H. L. "Designations for Colored Folk." American Speech, 1944. 19: 161–74.
 Mathabane, M. (1986). Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa. Simon & Schuster. (Chapter 2)
 Wachal, Robert S. "Taboo and Not Taboo: That Is the Question." American Speech, 2002. vol. 77: 195–206.

Dictionaries
 Erin McKean, ed. The New Oxford American Dictionary, second edition. (Oxford University Press, 2005)
 Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2002)
 John A. Simpson, Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series. 
 Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, ed. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary''. (Oxford University Press, 2004)

 
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