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Apr 20, 2019 · However, although English-language publications frequently describe moro as a pejorative term, the RAE's DLE doesn't list any of the uses of moro as pejorative (though definition 10 is tellingly negative).
There is not a particular negative meaning associated to the word 'moro' that would make it an insult in the same way as 'stupid' or, to use an ethnic example, 'mongol'. However, the word itself can be considered negative because it is often used in a derogative way to refer to any native of North African and even some Middle East countries.
Apr 13, 2007 · Moro in Spanish means many things, and like someone said before only the context and the intonation give it pejorative meaning. There is a traditional celebration named Moros y Cristianos. For me, moro means, as the RAE says: a person native from north of africa (not mentioning religion at all in this meaning).
Oct 9, 2022 · The term Moro was not derogatory and pejorative when first used by the Spaniards. It was derived from the first four letters of country of origin of the conquerors of Spain – Morocco – “Moro” (singular or Moros - plural form), or “Moor” (singular and Moors – plural) in English.
The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. Moro nation or Moro country). [6]
In this context, Moro became a derogatory term filling, together with heathen, the locally available “savage slot” (Trouillot 1991). This symbolic structure survived the end of the Spanish colony and, notwithstanding modifications, continued to pervade Filipino imagery in the post-Spanish period.
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Dec 5, 2009 · Spanish colonizers used the term “Moro” as a derogatory term for Muslims and portrayed them in negative terms mainly because of their resistance to Spanish colonial rule and Christianity.
