Editing Gook (section)

{{Short description|Ethnic slur against East and Southeast Asians}}
{{other uses}}
'''Gook''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|uː|k}} or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|ʊ|k}}) is a derogatory term for people of <!--Term is specifically for these regions per source.-->East and Southeast [[Asian people|Asian]] descent.<ref>{{Cite dictionary |url=http://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gook |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219155704/https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gook |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 19, 2021 |title=gook |dictionary=[[Lexico]] US English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> Its origin is unclear, but it may have originated among U.S. Marines during the [[Philippine–American War]] (1899–1913).<ref name="roegook">{{cite web |last=Roediger |first=Dave |author-link=David Roediger |date=March 1992 |title=Gook: The Short History of an Americanism |url=https://monthlyreviewarchives.org/index.php/mr/article/view/MR-043-10-1992-03_5 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030111334/http://www.davidroediger.org/articles/gook-the-short-history-of-americanism.html |archivedate=October 30, 2014 |work=[[Monthly Review]] |doi=10.14452/MR-043-10-1992-03_5}}</ref><ref>{{Dictionary.com|gook|accessdate=2021-12-19}}</ref> Historically, U.S. military personnel used the word "to refer to any dark-skinned foreigner, especially a non-European or non-American."<ref name="das">[http://www.davidroediger.org/articles/gook-the-short-history-of-americanism.html Roediger, David. (March 1992).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030111334/http://www.davidroediger.org/articles/gook-the-short-history-of-americanism.html |date=2014-10-30 }}

[http://www.davidroediger.org/articles/gook-the-short-history-of-americanism.html ''Gook: The Short History of an Americanism, Monthly Review. (Volume 43, Issue 10)''] 

[http://www.davidroediger.org/articles/gook-the-short-history-of-americanism.html “By the time of the Second World War, the identity of the gook expanded again. The West Coast's brilliant amateur student of language, Peter Tamony, took notes on radio commentator Deane Dickason's 1943 comments on gook—the Marines' "word for natives everwhere" but especially for Arabs. The latter of Dickason's conclusions is likely closer to the mark than the former. "'''Natives" of France, or of Britain, or of Holland, were not gooks, but people of color were'''……one San Francisco Examiner report '''from 1950 maintained that gook was "soldier's slang for almost any non-American'''," there is '''no available evidence that non-American whites''' in the United Nations force in Korea were so called.”] </ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Definition of GOOK |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gook |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gook Definition & Meaning |url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gook |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=Dictionary.com |language=en}}</ref> The earliest published example is dated 1920 and notes that U.S. Marines then [[American occupation of Haiti|in Haiti]] used the term to refer to [[Haitians]].<ref name="natgoo">{{cite journal |last=Seligmann |first=Herbert Jacob |author-link=Herbert J. Seligmann |date=10 July 1920 |title=The Conquest of Haiti |url=http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Independent_Media/Conquest_Haiti_SNM.html |journal=[[The Nation]]}}</ref> It was widely used in Asia in both the [[Korean War|Korean]] and [[Vietnamese War]]s.