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''Honky'' (also spelled ''honkie'' or sometimes ''honkey'') is mainly a derogatory word for white people, predominantly heard in the United States. The first recorded use of ''honky'' in this context may date back to 1946, although the use of "Honky Tonk" occurred in films well before that time. The exact origins of the word are generally unknown and postulations about the subject vary. ==Possible meanings, origins and uses== ''Honky'' may be a variant of ''hunky'', which was a deviation of ''Bohunk'', a slur for Bohemian-Hungarian immigrants in the early 1900s.〔''Oxford English Dictionary''〕 Honky may have come from coal miners in Oak Hill, West Virginia. The miners were segregated; blacks in one section, whites in another. Foreigners who could not speak English, mostly from Europe, were separated from both groups into an area known as "Hunk Hill". These male laborers were known as "Hunkies".〔Kline, M. (2011) Appalachian Heritage, (Vol. 59, No. 5, Sumer 2011.)〕 ''Honky'' may also derive from the term "xonq nopp" which, in the West African language Wolof, literally means "red-eared person" or "white person". The term may have originated with Wolof-speaking people brought to the U.S. It is mainly used by few black Americans as a term of abuse for "white man." 〔Mother Wit from Laughing Barrel. Alan Dundes. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1973. page 138. Google eBook edition. retrieved 04.11.2015〕 Another documented theory, and possible explanation for the origins of the word, is that ''honky'' was a nickname black people gave white men (called "johns" or "curb crawlers") who would ''honk'' their car horns and wait for prostitutes to come outside in urban areas (such as Harlem and red-light districts) in the early 1910s.〔(Entry ) at thefacts.com〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Racial Slur Database )〕 The term may have begun in the meat packing plants of Chicago. According to Robert Hendrickson, author of the ''Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins'', black workers in Chicago meatpacking plants picked up the term from white workers and began applying it indiscriminately to all whites. "Father of the Blues" W.C. Handy wrote of "Negroes and hunkies" in his autobiography.〔''Father of the Blues'' by William Christopher Handy. 1941 MacMillan. Page 214. no ISBN in this edition〕 ''Honky'' was adopted as a pejorative in 1967 by Black Power militants within Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) seeking a rebuttal for the term ''nigger''. National Chairman of the SNCC, H. Rap Brown, on June 24, 1967, told an audience of blacks in Cambridge, "You should burn that school down and then go take over the honkie's () school." Brown went on to say: "()f America don't come 'round, we got to burn it down. You better get some guns, brother. The only thing the honky respects is a gun. You give me a gun and tell me to shoot my enemy, I might shoot Lady Bird."〔(Full text of US Army Intelligence report ) on SNCC at "African-American Involvement in the Vietnam War" website〕 ''Honky'' has occasionally (and ironically) been used even for whites supportive of African-Americans, as seen in the 1968 trial of Black Panther Party member Huey Newton, when fellow Panther Eldridge Cleaver created pins for Newton's white supporters stating "Honkies for Huey". In Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong itself, a similar term, Hongkie, is used casually to refer to people originating from Hong Kong. It may also be a familiar short form for (ウクライナ語:Гончаренко) ("Honcharenko"),〔Humesky, Assya. ''Modern Ukrainian'', University of Michigan / Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Toronto, 1999. ISBN 1-895571-29-4〕 which is a common Ukrainian last name, sometimes transcribed as Honcarenko instead of Honcharenko. It has been used in Canada, the U.S. and Australia to refer to a person of Ukrainian origin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「honky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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