nigger

Spanish translation: negro

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English term or phrase:	nigger
Spanish translation:	negro
Entered by:	olv10siq

21:07 Dec 3, 2007

English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.

English term or phrase: nigger

¡Hola! ¿Cuál sería para vosotros una buena traducción de "nigger"?

Estos serían los contextos:

"In her references to blacks, she spared no invective, especially in her subsequent La négresse blanche, where black men are typically referred to as “niggers” and black women as “nigger whores” and “sluts.”

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"Capécia characterized these populations as “France’s whiteys,” “Martinican whiteys,”“ mulattoes,” and “niggers.” (In Jamaica, an Anglophone island, one hears of “whites,” “white neeygas” [“white niggers”], “browns” and “coolies,” and “blacks” and “neeygas.”)

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Local time: 01:33

negro

Explanation:
Negro (peyoretivamente) ¡Suerte!

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Note added at 4 minutos (2007-12-03 21:12:00 GMT)
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Es un término sumamente ofensivo.

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Note added at 29 minutos (2007-12-03 21:36:43 GMT)
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Quiero aclarar que, tal como dice George, según el contexto la palabra negro puede ser o no ofensiva. Pero según el contexto que nos das, donde la usan para describir a ciertas personas de "piel oscura", indudablemente la palabra es ofensiva y despectiva.
Nací en Cuba y puedo asegurar que si a una persona de color (como me enseñaron de pequeña a llamarlos) le dices NEGRO, el insulto es mayúsculo.

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Note added at 34 minutos (2007-12-03 21:41:16 GMT)
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Ahora recuerdo otro nombre, NICHE, al menos en Cuba también se usa.

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olv10siq
Local time: 16:33

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5 +7

negro

olv10siq

4 +2

negrata

patricia scott

5 +1

negraco/a

Pilar Royo

3 +2

negro

George Rabel

4 +1

negrata

djordi

nigger

Claudia Alvis

negro

Juan Aspinwall

mayate

JoseAlejandro

3 +1

negrata

nalcarazo

negro de mierda

Austinterpret

Discussion entries: 1

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8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

negro

Explanation:
Así. La palabra en sí no es ofensiva, pero puede serlo, depende de como se use. En cierta época, se "suavizaba" un poco con palabras como "negrito" o "moreno". En el caso de "whiteys" unaa posibilidad es "los blanquitos", término usado despectivamente por ciertos negros en referencia a los blancos, o a los menos negros.

George Rabel
Local time: 19:33
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 23

Notes to answerer

Asker: El problema es que durante todo el texto necesito diferenciar entre "black" y "nigger"...

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

negrata

Explanation:
es horrible, pero si necesitas hacer la distinción entre diferentes formas despectivas, puede ser una opción

patricia scott
Spain
Local time: 01:33
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 34

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

negrata

Explanation:
Se utiliza de modo más despectivo

Suerte

nalcarazo
Local time: 00:33
Native speaker of:

Spanish

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

negrata

Explanation:
(término peyorativo)

Reference: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/ultima/Prohibido/decir/negrat...

djordi
Local time: 01:33
Native speaker of:

German,

Serbo-Croat

32 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

negraco/a

Explanation:
Otra opción. "Negraco" es un término despectivo para referirse a una persona de raza negra, o de color. Encontrarás multitud de referencias en Internet donde se hace este uso peyorativo.

Pilar Royo
Spain
Local time: 01:33
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

negro

olv10siq
Local time: 16:33
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 28

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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Yaotl Altan

1 min

-> Muchas gracias Yaotl

agree

Blanca González: Sí, yo creo que en español no hay, gracias a Dios, un término tan peyorativo e insultante, y habrá que conformarse con poner, simplemente, negro

4 mins

-> Gracias Blanca

agree

Cristina Heraud-van Tol: Sí, pues, se tendrá que usar "negro", aunque en castellano es el término normal y nada peyorativo para llamar a una persona de color.

26 mins

-> Gracias Cristina

agree

María Florencia Otero

1 hr

-> Muchas gracias María

neutral

Claudia Alvis: La palabra 'negro' no es ofensiva en todos los países. En ciertos contexto es hasta positiva.

2 hrs

-> Gracias por tu aportación.

agree

nigthgirl: negro como forma repulsiva de nombrarlo

4 hrs

-> Muchas gracias nightgirl

agree

Sebastián Castillo Thomas

4 hrs

-> Muchas gracias Sebastián

agree

Rosina Peixoto

5 hrs

-> Muchas gracias Translator Uy

2 hrs confidence:

nigger

Explanation:
You could translate it but it wouldn't be the same. Unlike the word 'negro', which may not always be offensive, 'nigger' is today an EXTREMELY offensive word. Throughout the history of the United States, and still today, the word has had a number of different connotations, and the word is still heavily charged sociologically, historically and anthropologically. Since your text seems to be academic or informative, I'd used the word in English and add a Translator's note.

PS. This question should have been marked as offensive.

Claudia Alvis
Peru
Local time: 18:33
Native speaker of:

Spanish

2 hrs confidence:

negro

Explanation:
Es un término despectivo para las personas de color

Example sentence(s):

No quiero que mis hijos jueguen con ese negro

Juan Aspinwall
Local time: 17:33
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

49 mins confidence:

negro de mierda

Explanation:
"nigger" in the usa in my opinion is a relic from the days of slavery with a very strong negative connotation.not simply negro etc. I think that if said by someone that was not african american great offence might be taken.

I dont agree that there is anything "sumamente ofensivo" about someone being or being called negro in spanish or english

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“Nigger: it is arguably the most consequential social insult in American History, though, at the same time, a word that reminds us of ‘the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience’” (Kennedy 1).

Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy’s book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word is at the center of debate because of its controversy. It addresses questions among a diverse audience of students and scholars of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in its quest to discover how and why the word should or should not be used in modern day America.

As a black American male, the word nigger conjures up within me hate, hostility, violence, oppression, and a very shameful and unfortunate part of American History. The word symbolizes the everlasting chains of a people plagued with hate and bondage simply because of skin color. For many black people, including myself, nigger is the most pejorative word in the English language. Even when compared to racial slurs like kike, honkey, cracker, wet back, spic, jungle bunny, pod, tarbaby, and white trash, nigger is noted as the worst insult in the English language. The word nigger suggests that black people are second class citizens, ignorant and less than human.

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http://wrt-intertext.syr.edu/XI/Nigger.html

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-12-03 22:11:03 GMT)
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otra opción : esclavo

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-12-03 22:14:56 GMT)
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“white neeygas” [“white niggers”], eran en su mayoria irlandeses que acabaron en colonias inlgesas por el caribe, y se les extendia todos los derechos que a los black niggers......esclavitud.

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BHM Day 13: White Immigrants and the threat to freedom at vegankid- [ Traduzca esta página ]Irish immigrants were referred to as “white niggers” and to be called an ... were killed by the system of slavery than at the hands of White immigrants. ...
vegankid.solidaritydesign.net/2007/02/21/bhm-day-13-white-immigrants-and-the-threat-to-freedom/ - 29k - En caché - Páginas similares

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March 1996 Michigan Today---Comparisons of African slaves and ...- [ Traduzca esta página ]Irish immigrants to America were referred to as "White Niggers." Both groups were targets of racist stereotypes that usually drew on a debased Darwinism in ...
www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/96/Mar96/mta15m96.html - 14k - En caché - Páginas similares

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Note added at 2 days2 hrs (2007-12-05 23:30:34 GMT)
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African American Registry: Nigger (the word), a brief history! - Traducir esta página
*On this date we look at the history of word "Nigger" in America. ... experience in American speech is the use of nigger by African Americans. ...aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2420/... - 27k - En caché

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Note added at 2 days2 hrs (2007-12-05 23:33:51 GMT)
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http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2420/Nigg...

Austinterpret
Spain
Local time: 01:33
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish

2 days 21 hrs confidence:

mayate

Explanation:
At least for Chicanos and some Mexicans...each country/region must have its own terms

JoseAlejandro
United States
Local time: 16:33
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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