pajeet

English

Alternative forms

• Pajeet

Etymology

An invented Indian-sounding given name, originating from the "Pajeet, my son" meme created on the 4chan message board /int/ in July 2015, mocking South Asians. This was itself inspired by the "Mehmet, my son" meme, popularized on /int/ in late 2014, which mocked Turkish people. Although the name does not exist in South Asia, similar-sounding names exist, especially in the Indian state of Punjab. It is likely derived from Punjabi ਭਾਜੀ (bhājī) / بھاجی (bhājī, “elder brother”), as well as from Punjabi male names ending with the suffix Hindi जीत (jīt, “victory”), such as Baljeet and Sanjeet.

Noun

pajeet (plural pajeets)

1. (Internet slang, originally 4chan, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) A person of South Asian ancestry.

   Synonym: (ethnic slur) poojeet

   • 2019 April 13, Luke Smith, 4:13 from the start, in Leave Amazon? You can't LEAVE Amazon!‎^[4]:

     You used to be able to e-mail some Amazon representative and get your account deleted maybe; you can't do that anymore, what you have to do nowadays is you either have to live-chat with a pajeet or you have to manually call them.

   • 2019 April 27, John T. Earnest, An open letter [so-called Earnest Manifesto]‎^[5], →DOI, margin number 27:

     Apparently, Pewdiepie hates Jews as much as Pajeets.

   • [2020 January 31, Patrik Hermansson, David Lawrence, Joe Mulhall, Simon Murdoch, “Myth, Mysticism, India, and the Alt-Right”, in The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century?, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     A glance at the comments section of any alt-right website will confront the viewer with crude racism towards people of non-white ethnicities, not least people of Indian origin, who are variously degraded as "Pajeets," "street-shitters," or stereotyped as sexual harassers. Of course, this is unsurprising for a movement rooted in white supremacy.]

   • 2024 November 9, Han Feizi, “Ethnic slurs, Bo Yang, The Ugly Chinaman and national character”, in Asia Times‎^[6]:

     A South Asian ‘Pajeet’ and a ‘Chinaman’ are pretty much the same creature – a quasi-human living in squalor […] This piece will not focus on Indians and their Pajeet situation, about which Han Feizi has little expertise. It will be about the “Chinaman” situation, which has dogged the Chinese for 150 years. […] Han Feizi and all Gen-X Chinamen have crowd-shoving, queue-jumping and public quarreling skills that, although they may have atrophied since we were in our prime, would have matched those of the most uncouth Pajeet.

2. (Pakistan, Internet slang, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) An Indian, especially non-Muslim.

Derived terms

• jeet (“an investor who is extremely risk-averse”)
• mujeet (“a South Asian Muslim”)
• pajeetware (“poor-quality software created in India”)
• poojeet

See also

• curry-muncher
• Paki
• street-shitter