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'Freshies'
Depends what it's in relation to.
She means "Fresh off the Boat". It's faster and less formal than saying "newly/recently emigrated people from the Indian sub-continent" so doesn't have to have a negative inference. But in my experience the Indians I have encountered use it with clear subtext of being backwards and less cultured (they were all second generation fwiw).
But imo that's more a class related issue than racist like say Indians using the word Paki in a negative, but claiming that it is a reclamation of a word used against them like nigger.
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@Harrington
A girl in the office keeps referring to 'Freshies'. She is the third generation of migrants: her grandparents migrated to the UK from India.
Is she being racist?