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Wigger (alternatively spelled wigga, whigger or whigga) is a pejorative slang
Slang

Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language....
 term for a white person who allophilically
Allophilia

Allophilia?positive attitudes for a group that is not one's own?is a term derived from Greek words meaning "liking or love of the other" . Studied by social scientists, allophilia is the antonym of negative prejudices and the antonym of a host of "?isms": sexism, racism, heterosexism, ageism, anti-Semitism, elitism/classism, and phallocentris...
 emulates mannerisms, slang
Slang

Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language....
, and fashions stereotypically
Stereotype

A stereotype is a preconceived idea that attributes certain characteristics to all the members of class or set. The term is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her me...
 associated with urban
Urban culture

Urban culture is the culture of city. Cities all over the world, past and present, have behaviors and cultural elements that separate them from otherwise comparable rural areas....
 African Americans and urban Black British
Black British

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 and Caribbean
Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
 culture, especially in relation to hip hop culture and British Grime/Garage
UK garage

UK garage is an umbrella term that refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of House music in the United Kingdom from early/mid-1990s....
 scene.

The term most likely stems from a portmanteau of the word white and the derogatory term nigger
Nigger

Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable as a pejorative term and common ethnic slur for black people, and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts....
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Wigger (alternatively spelled wigga, whigger or whigga) is a pejorative slang
Slang

Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language....
 term for a white person who allophilically
Allophilia

Allophilia?positive attitudes for a group that is not one's own?is a term derived from Greek words meaning "liking or love of the other" . Studied by social scientists, allophilia is the antonym of negative prejudices and the antonym of a host of "?isms": sexism, racism, heterosexism, ageism, anti-Semitism, elitism/classism, and phallocentris...
 emulates mannerisms, slang
Slang

Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language....
, and fashions stereotypically
Stereotype

A stereotype is a preconceived idea that attributes certain characteristics to all the members of class or set. The term is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her me...
 associated with urban
Urban culture

Urban culture is the culture of city. Cities all over the world, past and present, have behaviors and cultural elements that separate them from otherwise comparable rural areas....
 African Americans and urban Black British
Black British

group = Black British|image= File:Chiwetel Ejiofor by David Shankbone.jpgFile:Naomie Harris 1.JPGFile:Allsaints8.jpgFile:IgnatiusSancho.jpgFile:Estelle Swaray.jpgFile:ThandieNewtonBAFTA07.jpg...
 and Caribbean
Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
 culture, especially in relation to hip hop culture and British Grime/Garage
UK garage

UK garage is an umbrella term that refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of House music in the United Kingdom from early/mid-1990s....
 scene.

The term most likely stems from a portmanteau of the word white and the derogatory term nigger
Nigger

Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable as a pejorative term and common ethnic slur for black people, and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts....
. The word is considered offensive by some because of its similarity to nigger in addition to reflecting stereotypical notions about urban blacks
Black people

Black people is a term usually referring to a Race of humans with a dark skin color, but the term has also been used to categorise a number of diverse populations into one common group....
.

The phenomenon of white people adopting stereotypical black mannerisms, slang, and apparel has appeared in several generations since slavery was abolished in the western world
Western world

The term Western world, the West or the Occident can have multiple meanings dependent on its context . Accordingly, the basic definition of what constitutes "the West" varies, expanding and contracting over time, in relation to various historical circumstances....
. The concept has been documented in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 and other white-majority countries. An early form of this was the white negro in the jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and swing music
Swing (genre)

Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States....
 scenes of the 1920s and 1930s; as examined in the Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an United States novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S....
 essay, "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster"." It was later seen in the Zoot suit
Zoot suit

A zoot suit is a Suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, Wiktionary:pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders....
er of the 1930s and 1940s; the hipster
Hipster (1940s subculture)

Hipster, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular modern jazz, which became popular in the early '40s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: manner of dress, slang terminology, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed...
 of the 1940s; and the beatnik
Beatnik

Beatniks were part of a sociocultural movement in the 1950s and early 1960s that subscribed to an anti-materialistic lifestyle in the wake of WWII....
 and rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
er of the 1950s.

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