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The term remained in use as a technical ethnic term in anthropological and historiographical literature into the late 1980s.
It’s hard to fault him there in the early 1900s when it was an “accepted” scientific term until nearly a century later. Thank you for sharing that link 'cause that’s a new one to me!
I mean, we can fault him while still recognising that it’s of its time, but it always was a racist term, being accepted by the same exclusive (read: white European) community of scientists who coined and normalised it (and I’m sure never consulted the people it refers to) really isn’t a good indication that it wasn’t.
Either way, it was a new one to me too but I had a feeling so I looked it up, and once confirmed I thought it was important that people were aware of what it actually meant before they consider sharing it further or obliviously using the word. Not having a go at anyone really.
I’m pretty sure there were like somewhat popular pop songs with that term in Finland in the 90’s.
Okay the song I’m thinking of is from 1974, but it was played fairly often in the 90’s. No wait yeah rerecorded in the 90’s. For children’s charity, lol.
Not defending anything or anyone, just pointing out how late the term stayed in use. At least nowadays it’s recognised to be racist.
Yet another L for Everett. Probably will keep this one up so people get educated on the term and why not to use it.
A shame Condo went for that term to finish the gag. Possibly because South Africa was in the news a lot around that time. It would have made more sense to refer to bows as in European royalty, or bows in ballet or English folk dancing.
@Rolando @ShareMySims I mean, I don’t think it was understood as a slur at the time. It’s not like anyone in the US knew the correct endonym “Khoekhoe” and was choosing to use a different term “Hottentot” instead in order to express contempt.
But characterizing bowing as an excessively servile action characteristic of a “primitive” people is in and of itself problematic.
Yeah, before looking it up I thought it was probably 90% likely to be a racist slur and 10% likely to be an obscure jab at royalty or aristocracy. You’re probably right about the reasoning though, but the joke could have so frustratingly easily been punching up instead of down.
