Alright I have a question, why is a popular racist name for Italians, Guinea's?

I'm pretty sure it refers to the African coastline. It's usually a slang to the darker skinned Italians.

I'd like to know where dago came from.

I read in a school text book that Native Americans misunderstood Colombus when he was referring to his son "Diago"

were does 'wop' come from?

With Out Passport

"Without Papers", actually, but close enough...

But according to Merriam-Webster:

So what? Some time in history italians were immigrating without any papers? Why is this specificly a rude remark to Italians

Does anyone know where the name TONY comes from? When Italian immigrants passed through Ellis Island, they had stickers on their lapels that said :

TO-NY



Don Cardi

"Dago fast and Dago slow, but when Dago flat, Dago wop,wop,wop,wop"

My appoligies, but I couldnt resist.

DSC,

That was one of my father's joke's when I was growing up. He called them "Dago" tires. Dago thru rain..Dago thru snow, Dago thru sleet, and when Dago flat..they go Wop! Wop! Wop! :p

TIS

My dad learned that from some old Italian guy he worked with in the carnival 30 odd years ago.

Slim, it's not the word that is "rude", but the intent; how the user uses the word and where the word was derived from. Sometimes it's a combination, or just the emphasis in a sentence. Each group has their own slang; their own connotation. In the end, and over time, the expression tends to take on a derogatory meaning, no matter who the sender, or who the receiver.

Basically if someone called an Italian A WHOP, they were putting them down saying that the Italian was without papers, implying that he or she was a lowlife immigrant who really didn't belong in this country.

Don Cardi