coolies

Plural of coolie

English 1 In North America, unskilled Asian labor, usually Chinese (originally used in 19th-century for Chinese railroad labor). Possibly from Hindi kuli, day laborer. 2 Racial epithet for Indo-Caribbean people, especially in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and South African Indians.
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Ethnicities Chinese 

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