How are bananas used as insulting symbols?
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Published in Daily Trivia
Because of the stereotypical image of monkeys and apes eating bananas, they have been used as a means for racist insults, such as throwing bananas at sports players of African descent. In Chinese culture, banana is a slang term which is used to describe an Asian person who acts like a caucasian (yellow on the outside, white on the inside). Due to their association with monkeys they are also used as tokens in the 3D Nintendo versions of Donkey Kong and the Sega series Super Monkey Ball. Bananas are also humorously used as a phallic symbol due to similarities in size and shape.
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