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One of the fans accused of chanting racist insults at football player Vinícius earlier this year. SUR
R.E.S.P.E.C.T... find out what it means to me

R.E.S.P.E.C.T... find out what it means to me

In the last couple of years, insults commonplace in the 70s, 80s and 90s have been gradually raising their ugly heads again. Today, I find myself completely taken aback when somebody starts using them in a completely flippant way

David Andrews

Monday, 14 August 2023, 11:30

It really makes me shudder when I hear in Spanish the words "moro" (Maghrebi), "panchito" (south American), "maricón" (poof) and "travestí" (transvestite/ transgender). The words ... were commonplace slurs here in the 70s, 80s and, I would say, 90s. Arriving in 1991, from very PC London, to Malaga, I can remember being completely horrified by how these, and other derogatory terms, were banded around both at work, home and in the bars. These kinds of words had disappeared, well in my world they had anyway, from "polite conversation" in the UK. Similar insults in English were definitely frowned upon and were a vague memory from 80s playgrounds and dodgy 70s comedy programmes.

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