Colonialism alive and well.
A couple of other words I've come across for "foreigner" . Excuse the spelling, khawaja. The white skinned people said it means white man, but the uncomfortable truth is it actually means rich man, So some locals were known too as khawaja, and then you realise it isnt perhaps a positive word!, even though, delivered with no malice.
Here white ex pat immigrants, covering my bases there! are referred to as guiris. I've still not worked out what it really means because although it's never said with malice, they say it is tourist, but after 20 years Im still a guiri!?
In SW UK the tourists are called grokles and that was not a positive word.
Who knows in this desemanticised touchy age, does anyone know what they are even saying any more :)
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