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Anonymous
Gook (U.S. military slang) an Asian person, especially an enemy (e.g. Koreans or Vietnamese during the Korean and Vietnam wars). By extension, any Asian person. Derived from the Korean words hanguk and miguk. Guk is from the Chinese word guo, which means country. Hanguk refers to Korea[76] and miguk is the common word for the United States.[77] American troops thought "miguk" sounded like "me gook" (i.e. "I am a gook").[citation needed] The word persisted during the Vietnam War, perhaps also because the Vietnamese people have a similar word qu?c, meaning "country". "Gook" was also used by white soldiers in Africa to designate enemy insurgents
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