At one point, Ms. Rhee asked if his crew wanted to watch her fire a principal.
“We were totally stunned,” Mr. Merrow said....
A slang dictionary published in 1893 defined
"gook" as "a low prostitute."[5]
By using the word to refer to Filipinos,[6] the Marines may have been expressing contempt for native women and accusing them of promiscuity.[7] Early usage may have been influenced by the word "goo goo" or "gugu," also applied to Filipinos by the Marines. "Gugu" originated as a mocking imitation of Filipino speech[7] (cf. barbarian). "The Marines who occupied Nicaragua in 1912 took to calling the natives gooks, one of their names for Filipinos," according to H. L. Mencken.[8] Marines serving in Haiti in 1915 to 1920 used the term to refer to Haitians.[9]
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