It’s instructive to contemplate the large number of monikers for peoples and ethnicity’s  that are, at the same time, derogatory.

Three of my favorites:

Berber: from the Greek Barbarous (Barbarian/Foreign)

Slav: from the Greek Sklábos– slave

Vandals: both a moniker of the Germanic tribe and a ‘willful destroyer of what is beautiful or venerable’

Trade in an Early East Slavic State, 19th century. Private Collection. Artist : Anonymous. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A. Darius Kamali