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Pejorative Chinese language slang term for foreigners

Guizi is a pejorative Chinese slang term referring to foreigners, with a history of xenophobic connotations.

Starting with the arrival of European sailors in the sixteenth century, foreigners were often perceived in China as "uncivilized tribes given to mayhem and destruction". In the southern parts of China, the term gweilo (鬼佬) was used; this term remains popular today in the Cantonese speaking regions of China. In northern parts, the term 'western devil' (西洋鬼子 ) was used. Er guizi (c=二鬼子) — used to refer to ethnic Korean conscripts and parapoliceman who contributed to the Japanese occupation and war effort during the Second Sino Japanese War and the Pacific War. It was later extended to refer to all collaborators with the Japanese, including hanjians and Taiwanese conscripts. In modern times, however, the terms became synonymous with race traitor, referring to any Chinese nationals and overseas Chinese who act as appeasers or promoters of foreign interests at the expense of Chinese national interests. Yang guizi (c=洋鬼子) or xiyang guizi — used to refer to Westerners. Jia yang guizi (c=假洋鬼子) — used to refer to "sellout" Chinese who adopt Western values and are discriminatory to their own ethnic identity and cultural heritage. Initially used to describe compradors and foreign educated scholars during the late 19th century, who often dressed and talked like Westerners, the term is now synonymous to race traitor]s. A similar word in English is "Uncle Chan", which is derived from Uncle Tom and used to describe a xenophilic Hongkonger—and by further extension any westernized Chinese, regardless of mainland or overseas origin—who are perceived as self hating, supporting Hong Kong independence and pandering to sinophobia in order to gain favor from Westerners.