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Beur (pronounced[bœʁ]), or alternativelyrebeu, is a colloquial term, sometimes considered pejorative, inFrench to designate European-born people whose parents or grandparents are immigrants from theMaghreb.[1] The equivalent term for a femalebeur is abeurette. However, the termbeurette is condemned and criticized by several anti-racist organizations because of thexenophobic and degrading connotation that this word has taken on over the decades (in particular because of thefetishization ofNorth African women inFrance as well as an insult stemming fromcolonialism:[2][3][4][5] for several years the racial categorybeurette was the most popular in France on porn sites).[citation needed]The termrebeu is neither applicable to females nor does it have a female version.
The wordbeur was coined usingverlan for the wordarabe, which means Arabic or Arab in French. Since the late 1990s, many young people have used the twice-verlanised termrebeu as a synonym. This term is now the dominant term used by the younger generations (under 30). The wordbeurette, the female version ofbeur, is created by adding the -ette female suffix in French. In French many slang words are created by simply reversing the word in terms of spelling and then reading it out. Because of French grammar rules, the new word is usually completely different from the result of reversing the word phonetically. The wordbeurgeois is derived from a combination of the wordsbeur andbourgeois.
The term is mostly used in French-speaking European countries ― France, Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg and Switzerland ― as well as in theMaghreb. Due to cultural integration between such peoples across Europe, the term is now popular in other parts of Europe with a large Maghrebi community, such as the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy.[citation needed]
Since 1992, theBEUR.FM radio station has broadcast nationwide (106.7FM inParis).[6]
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