Charlie

English 1 To African-Americans of the 1960s-1970s, white people as a reified collective oppressor group, similar to The Man or The System. 2 Non-pejorative slang term used by American troops as a shorthand term for Vietnamese guerrillas. Derived from the verbal shorthand for 'Victor Charlie', the NATO phonetic alphabet for VC, the abbreviation for Viet Cong. Other references to the Viet Cong included 'Mr. Charles' as a rueful admission of the skill at asymmetric warfare. NON-HATEFUL MEANING A person's name
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Nationalities Vietnam  Ethnicities Vietnamese 

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