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"(now considered an ethnic slur and offensive) An Asian man or someone with Asian heritage"
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"ref": "1984, Bruce Springsteen (lyrics and music), “Born in the U.S.A.”",
"text": "Got in a little hometown jam / So they put a rifle in my hand / Sent me off to a foreign land / To go and kill the yellow man.",
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