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Forum: The Trailer Park

Jul 16th 2015, 6:10 am

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The noun Polack (/ˈpoʊlɑːk/ or /-læk/; also Pollack, Pollock, Polock), in the contemporary English language, is a derogatory reference to a person of Polish descent. It is an Anglicisation of the...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jul 11th 2015, 4:30 pm

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When I was a kid growing up in the '50s, everyone in the small multi-ethnic village used a name for someone of a different ethnicity. I don't think most knew that was a derogatory term and people of...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jul 11th 2015, 4:12 am

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When I joined the Navy, I had to fill out a form that asked about my father's and mother's place of birth. When I wrote "Yugoslavia" for my mother, it asked for her naturalization number. I asked my...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jul 11th 2015, 2:42 am

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My grandmother from my mother's side only learned a few words of English but as a child I used to visit her a lot and hand gestures were used a lot. I lived in a small village and my grandfather...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jul 10th 2015, 8:40 pm

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My favorite story is from my grandfather on my mother's side. He decided to immigrate first, find a job, and then send money back to my grandmother in Yugoslavia to pay for the trip for her and my...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jul 10th 2015, 7:18 pm

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Just like the mass immigration of the Italians, Germans, Poles, Scandinavians, Yugoslavs, and others in the early 20th century, many are immigrating out of desperation.

My grandparents from both...

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