I have personally been on the receiving end of racial slurs and epithets as a Canadian...from Canadians...while in Canada.
While I was an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company or privately travelling this country I experienced racist remarks.
Ontario: Bay Stores or Royal Canadian Legions.
: Kingston
: Aurora
: Richmond Hill
: Jackson's Point
: Windsor
: Harrow
: Kingsville
: Leamington
Saskatchewan: Bay Stores or Royal Canadian Legions
: Regina
: Saskatoon
Alberta: Bay Stores or Royal Canadian Legions
: Calgary
: Edmonton
British Columbia: Bay Stores or Royal Canadian Legions
: Vancouver
: Richmond
The racial comments were made because I was a Quebecer. No matter whether I was Anglophone or Francophone.
Canada' s Hidden Racism.
Something to be proud of and one of the reasons we will always be divided.
Definitions:
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]
Slur \Slur\ (sl[^u]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slurred (sl[^u]rd);
p. pr. & vb. n. Slurring (sl[^u]r"r[i^]ng).] [Cf. OE. sloor
mud, clay, Icel. sl[=o]ra, slo[eth]ra, to trail or drag one's
self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do
negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a ****tish
girl.]
1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
--Cudworth.
[1913 Webster]
2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over
lightly or with little notice.
[1913 Webster]
With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his
crimes. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
To slur men of what they fought for. --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster]
5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur
one's words.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to
connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
--Busby.
[1913 Webster]
7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to
mackle.
[1913 Webster]
Slur \Slur\, n.
1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a
stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. "Gaining to
his name a lasting slur." --South.
[1913 Webster]
2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
3. (Mus.) A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], connecting
notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in
one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one
stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
[1913 Webster]
4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the
sinkers successively by passing over them.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]
slur
n 1: (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played
legato
2: a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to
female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is
difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to
any slur on his virility" [syn: aspersion]
3: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch]
v 1: play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most
beautiful passage in the sonata"
2: speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your
comments are slurring your co-workers"
3: utter indistinctly
4: become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two
theories blurred" [syn: blur, dim] [ant: focus]
[also: slurring, slurred]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]
182 Moby Thesaurus words for "slur":
accent, accent mark, affront, asperse, aspersion, attaint,
bad-mouth, badge of infamy, bar, bar sinister, baton, bedaub,
befoul, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bespatter,
bestain, black eye, black mark, blacken, blink, blot, blow upon,
blur, brand, broad arrow, calumniate, calumny, cancel, cantando,
carefully ignore, cast aspersions on, cast reflections on, censure,
champain, character, cold-shoulder, custos, cut a corner,
cut corners, darken, daub, defame, defile, demilegato, denigrate,
dip into, direct, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discredit,
disparage, disparagement, disregard, dodge, dot, examine cursorily,
execution, expose, expose to infamy, expression, expression mark,
fermata, fingering, fudge, garble, gibbet, give the once-over,
glance at, glissando, gloss over, hang in effigy, hold, ignore,
imputation, innuendo, insinuation, insult, intonation,
key signature, lead, legato, libel, ligature, lisp, malign, mark,
mark of Cain, measure, metronomic mark, mezzo staccato, mumble,
music-making, notation, obloquy, odium, onus, page through,
parlando, pass over, pass over lightly, pause, performance,
personal remark, personality, pianism, pillory, pillorying,
pizzicato, point champain, presa, put-down, reflection, rendering,
rendition, repercussion, reprimand, reproach, rubato, scamp, scan,
scorch, sear, segno, sign, signature, singe, skid, skim, skim over,
skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slam, slander, slidder, slight,
slip, slip through, slubber, slubber over, slur over,
sly suggestion, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smutch, soil,
spiccato, spot, staccato, stain, stigma, stigmatism,
stigmatization, stigmatize, stricture, stutter, suggestion, sully,
swell, symbol, taint, tarnish, tear down, tempo mark,
thumb through, tie, time signature, touch, touch upon,
touch upon lightly, traduce, uncomplimentary remark, vilify,
vinculum, whispering campaign, zip through
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]
Epithet \Ep"i*thet\, n. [L. epitheton, Gr. ?, fr. ? added, fr. ?
to add; 'epi` upon, to + ? to put, place: cf. F.
['e]pith[`e]te. See Do.]
1. An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or
relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a
person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
[1913 Webster]
A prince [Henry III.] to whom the epithet
"worthless" seems best applicable. --Hallam.
[1913 Webster]
2. Term; expression; phrase. "Stuffed with epithets of war."
--Shak.
Syn: Epithet, Title.
Usage: The name epithet was formerly extended to nouns which
give a title or describe character (as the "epithet of
liar"), but is now confined wholly to adjectives. Some
rhetoricians, as Whately, restrict it still further,
considering the term epithet as belonging only to a
limited class of adjectives, viz., those which add
nothing to the sense of their noun, but simply hold
forth some quality necessarily implied therein; as,
the bright sun, the lofty heavens, etc. But this
restriction does not prevail in general literature.
Epithet is sometimes confounded with application,
which is always a noun or its equivalent.
[1913 Webster]
Epithet \Ep"i*thet\, v. t.
To describe by an epithet. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
Never was a town better epitheted. --Sir H.
Wotton.
Epithetic
WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]
epithet
n 1: a defamatory or abusive word or phrase; "sticks and stones
may break my bones but names can never hurt me" [syn: name]
2: descriptive word or phrase
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "epithet":
abuse, appellation, appellative, binomen, binomial name,
blackguard, byword, call names, catchword, cognomen, cryptonym,
curse, cuss, cuss out, cuss word, damn, denomination, designation,
device, dirty name, dirty word, dysphemism, empty title, epigraph,
epithetize, eponym, euonym, expletive, foul invective, handle,
honorific, hyponym, inscription, label, moniker, motto, name,
namesake, naughty word, no-no, nomen, nomen nudum, oath, obscenity,
profane oath, proper name, proper noun, revile, scientific name,
secret name, slogan, style, swear at, swearword, tag, tag line,
tautonym, title, trinomen, trinomial name, vilify, vituperate,
watchword
While I was an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company or privately travelling this country I experienced racist remarks.
Ontario: Bay Stores or Royal Canadian Legions.
: Kingston
: Aurora
: Richmond Hill
: Jackson's Point
: Windsor
: Harrow
: Kingsville
: Leamington
Saskatchewan: Bay Stores or Royal Canadian Legions
: Regina
: Saskatoon
Alberta: Bay Stores or Royal Canadian Legions
: Calgary
: Edmonton
British Columbia: Bay Stores or Royal Canadian Legions
: Vancouver
: Richmond
The racial comments were made because I was a Quebecer. No matter whether I was Anglophone or Francophone.
Canada' s Hidden Racism.
Something to be proud of and one of the reasons we will always be divided.
Definitions:
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]
Slur \Slur\ (sl[^u]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slurred (sl[^u]rd);
p. pr. & vb. n. Slurring (sl[^u]r"r[i^]ng).] [Cf. OE. sloor
mud, clay, Icel. sl[=o]ra, slo[eth]ra, to trail or drag one's
self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do
negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a ****tish
girl.]
1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
--Cudworth.
[1913 Webster]
2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over
lightly or with little notice.
[1913 Webster]
With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his
crimes. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
To slur men of what they fought for. --Hudibras.
[1913 Webster]
5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur
one's words.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to
connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
--Busby.
[1913 Webster]
7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to
mackle.
[1913 Webster]
Slur \Slur\, n.
1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a
stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. "Gaining to
his name a lasting slur." --South.
[1913 Webster]
2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
3. (Mus.) A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], connecting
notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in
one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one
stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
[1913 Webster]
4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the
sinkers successively by passing over them.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]
slur
n 1: (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played
legato
2: a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to
female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is
difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to
any slur on his virility" [syn: aspersion]
3: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch]
v 1: play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most
beautiful passage in the sonata"
2: speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your
comments are slurring your co-workers"
3: utter indistinctly
4: become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two
theories blurred" [syn: blur, dim] [ant: focus]
[also: slurring, slurred]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]
182 Moby Thesaurus words for "slur":
accent, accent mark, affront, asperse, aspersion, attaint,
bad-mouth, badge of infamy, bar, bar sinister, baton, bedaub,
befoul, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bespatter,
bestain, black eye, black mark, blacken, blink, blot, blow upon,
blur, brand, broad arrow, calumniate, calumny, cancel, cantando,
carefully ignore, cast aspersions on, cast reflections on, censure,
champain, character, cold-shoulder, custos, cut a corner,
cut corners, darken, daub, defame, defile, demilegato, denigrate,
dip into, direct, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discredit,
disparage, disparagement, disregard, dodge, dot, examine cursorily,
execution, expose, expose to infamy, expression, expression mark,
fermata, fingering, fudge, garble, gibbet, give the once-over,
glance at, glissando, gloss over, hang in effigy, hold, ignore,
imputation, innuendo, insinuation, insult, intonation,
key signature, lead, legato, libel, ligature, lisp, malign, mark,
mark of Cain, measure, metronomic mark, mezzo staccato, mumble,
music-making, notation, obloquy, odium, onus, page through,
parlando, pass over, pass over lightly, pause, performance,
personal remark, personality, pianism, pillory, pillorying,
pizzicato, point champain, presa, put-down, reflection, rendering,
rendition, repercussion, reprimand, reproach, rubato, scamp, scan,
scorch, sear, segno, sign, signature, singe, skid, skim, skim over,
skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slam, slander, slidder, slight,
slip, slip through, slubber, slubber over, slur over,
sly suggestion, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smutch, soil,
spiccato, spot, staccato, stain, stigma, stigmatism,
stigmatization, stigmatize, stricture, stutter, suggestion, sully,
swell, symbol, taint, tarnish, tear down, tempo mark,
thumb through, tie, time signature, touch, touch upon,
touch upon lightly, traduce, uncomplimentary remark, vilify,
vinculum, whispering campaign, zip through
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]
Epithet \Ep"i*thet\, n. [L. epitheton, Gr. ?, fr. ? added, fr. ?
to add; 'epi` upon, to + ? to put, place: cf. F.
['e]pith[`e]te. See Do.]
1. An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or
relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a
person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
[1913 Webster]
A prince [Henry III.] to whom the epithet
"worthless" seems best applicable. --Hallam.
[1913 Webster]
2. Term; expression; phrase. "Stuffed with epithets of war."
--Shak.
Syn: Epithet, Title.
Usage: The name epithet was formerly extended to nouns which
give a title or describe character (as the "epithet of
liar"), but is now confined wholly to adjectives. Some
rhetoricians, as Whately, restrict it still further,
considering the term epithet as belonging only to a
limited class of adjectives, viz., those which add
nothing to the sense of their noun, but simply hold
forth some quality necessarily implied therein; as,
the bright sun, the lofty heavens, etc. But this
restriction does not prevail in general literature.
Epithet is sometimes confounded with application,
which is always a noun or its equivalent.
[1913 Webster]
Epithet \Ep"i*thet\, v. t.
To describe by an epithet. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
Never was a town better epitheted. --Sir H.
Wotton.
Epithetic
WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]
epithet
n 1: a defamatory or abusive word or phrase; "sticks and stones
may break my bones but names can never hurt me" [syn: name]
2: descriptive word or phrase
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "epithet":
abuse, appellation, appellative, binomen, binomial name,
blackguard, byword, call names, catchword, cognomen, cryptonym,
curse, cuss, cuss out, cuss word, damn, denomination, designation,
device, dirty name, dirty word, dysphemism, empty title, epigraph,
epithetize, eponym, euonym, expletive, foul invective, handle,
honorific, hyponym, inscription, label, moniker, motto, name,
namesake, naughty word, no-no, nomen, nomen nudum, oath, obscenity,
profane oath, proper name, proper noun, revile, scientific name,
secret name, slogan, style, swear at, swearword, tag, tag line,
tautonym, title, trinomen, trinomial name, vilify, vituperate,
watchword
I had a few broken bones and bruises to account for the racism I experienced.... and often felt. -_-
