Quote Originally Posted by falken View Post
My Fookienese is not that good, but I don't think it means stinking barbarians. I looked it up, and here's what I found. I was a bit surprised that some words that we commonly use are from Fookienese origins.

Chinese Loan Words in the Filipino Language



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Either I got the "stinking" part wrong, or my Professor who's now working for Andrew Tan got it wrong. Either way, "Huwana" is a pejorative term used to refer to "Filipinos" in general. Much like when Filipinos call Indians as "pana" or Chinese as "chekwa". It's a demeaning racist word -- that's the fact.