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- Raghead
- an ethnic slur used against Arabs, Indian Sikhs and some other peoples, denigrating them for wearing traditional headdress such as turbans or keffiyehs. Sometimes used generically for all Islamic nations. See Towel head.
- Rastus
- a derogatory, offensive term and refers to a stereotypically happy black man, not as a particular person.
- Razakars
- a Bengali Pejorative akin to the western term Judas.
- Redlegs
- in Barbados, the term is offensive to many, and refers to the islands' laborer-class whites.
- Redneck
- in the US, the term is offensive to many, and refers to Southern laborer-class whites. Not to be confused with rooinek (literally "red-neck"), South African slang for an Anglo-African.
- Redskin
- a controversial term referring to Native Americans, used in the names of several sports teams in the US.
- Roundeye
- (English-speaking Asians) a white or non-Asian person.
- Russki, Russkie
- disparaging when used by foreigners for "Russian" (actually, these are transliterations of the Russian "Русский" (in Russian pronounced: Rooskiy) for "Russian" and the spelling Russkiy is almost always in a literary context. "Russki" in Russian simply means someone who is an ethnic Russian as opposed to a minority nationality within the Russian Federation.
- Russophobe
- as a codeword for Jew, popularized in Russia by Igor Shafarevich, a leading figure in the Russian nationalist anti-Jewish movement.
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