Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?

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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?

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In Hawaii, 'haole' - the word for a foreigner (the majority of the time a white foreigner) is considered derogatory/racist.

How is barang/farang different?
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JJJJS wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:11 pm In Hawaii, 'haole' - the word for a foreigner (the majority of the time a white foreigner) is considered derogatory/racist.

How is barang/farang different?
The word 'barang' in itself has no negative connotation. To assume a linguistic construct 20k km from here is the same here is naive.
Cambodians do have derogatory words to address certain foreigners but 'barang' is not one of those.
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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?

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Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:52 pm Cambodians do have derogatory words to address certain foreigners but 'barang' is not one of those.
Such as..?
In the name of knowledge, of course. As well as whether the hags-in-law are talking badly about me.
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Freightdog wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:55 pm
Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:52 pm Cambodians do have derogatory words to address certain foreigners but 'barang' is not one of those.
Such as..?
In the name of knowledge, of course. As well as whether the hags-in-law are talking badly about me.
The most famous one would be the word for Vietnamese I guess, 'monkey with a human face'.
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Re: Does 'barang/farang' have a negative connotation? What would be equivalent terms in English?

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Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:52 pm
JJJJS wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:11 pm In Hawaii, 'haole' - the word for a foreigner (the majority of the time a white foreigner) is considered derogatory/racist.

How is barang/farang different?
To assume a linguistic construct 20k km from here is the same here is naive.
There wouldn't be an 'Ask the expats' section without the existence of naivety.
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Vietnamese dog is another derogatory word that comes to mind as well in terms of Khmer derogatory expressions.
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Barang is a word used widely by the Khmer to discribe and in some cases to address a white forginer.
Racism does not come in to question, due to there's no such meaning towards the white person, so there for the question is, have the Khmer got Prejudice tendencies against white forginers?
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newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 10:58 pm Vietnamese dog
Apart from the unrequested-so-far-racist-slur branch popping up, isn't "Viet dog" more appropriate, grammatically ?
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Freightdog wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:55 pm
Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:52 pm Cambodians do have derogatory words to address certain foreigners but 'barang' is not one of those.
Such as..?
In the name of knowledge, of course. As well as whether the hags-in-law are talking badly about me.
Off Topic, but,,,,,,,

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Username Taken wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:03 am
Freightdog wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:55 pm
Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 8:52 pm Cambodians do have derogatory words to address certain foreigners but 'barang' is not one of those.
Such as..?
In the name of knowledge, of course. As well as whether the hags-in-law are talking badly about me.
Off Topic, but,,,,,,,

My kids have fits of laughter when I tell them that Joy Kinnear is a real person's name.

;-)
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