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In Australia, the term 'wog' refers to residents of Southern European, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern ethnicity or appearance. The slur became widely diffused with an increase in immigration from Europe, mainly Italy, Greece, Malta, Poland, Croatia, and Ukraine, after the Second World War. These new arrivals were perceived by the majority population as contrasting with the larger predominant Anglo Protestant/Anglo-Australian/Anglo-Celtic Australian culture. The term expanded to include not just Southern European peoples, but also immigrants from the Mediterranean region of the Middle East.
 
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