Why are Indians called Ah San? Why are Indians called Ah San?

The origin of the Indian Ahsan.

Saying. Seventy or eighty years ago, Shanghai was still a concession, so there were a lot of foreigners, especially the British, who accounted for the vast majority! In order to maintain the law and order in the Shanghai Concession, the British recruited many Sikhs from India to serve as security policemen (the term was called patrol at that time).

These Indians' ** are very dark, and because of their religious beliefs, they all have red scarves wrapped around their heads. That's why Shanghainese people called these Indian policemen red-headed black charcoal at first.

However, civil servants (especially police) in the British system have long been accustomed to being called sir (see Jackie Chan's police series for details, don't they all call police sir or police sir?). ）。In addition, Shanghainese people have always been accustomed to adding a character A in front of a monosyllabic word.

Therefore, the Shanghainese people shouted and called Ah Sir Ah San, and the Indian police were called Ah San.

Later, after a few months, the Shanghainese discovered that not every Indian was a Sikh with a red scarf, and that there were many other religious people in India who did not wear a red turban. Therefore, the Shanghainese simply changed the "red-headed Ah San" to "Indian Ah San", so this impolite nickname has been used to this day, and almost everyone in the Chinese area is still used to calling the Indian "Indian Ah San".

There is also a very credible statement that has been included in the slang dictionary encyclopedia! At that time, the people in the Shanghai concession often had to communicate with these Indian police, but the English of the Chinese was not good, and the English of the Indians was also strange, so the communication between the police and the people in Shanghai at that time could be said to be chicken and duck, and it was very unsmooth!

However, Shanghainese people have found new fun in this kind of chicken-to-duck communication. Because they found that every time the Indian police encountered the sharp-tongued Shanghainese, they would always meet red-eared, slurching, and like to stammer: I say...

i say...Therefore, Shanghainese people pronounced the classic stammering phrase of the Indian police: i say, in Shanghainese, and changed it to Ah San.

It is because of the above two somewhat inexplicable reasons that the relationship between the Indian and the Indian Ahsan has been rigidly equated since then. Come to think of it, the Indians are really wronged!

"Indian Asan" is a derogatory term with racist connotations. "India Asan" began in the British Concession in Shanghai's Shiliyangchang.

There are two theories about "Ah San":

First, it is said that the Indians are slaves of the country, and their status in the eyes of Shanghainese is lower than that of Xiyu and Huayu, ranking third;

There is also a theory that Indians have the mantra "i say" and "i say" when they speak, which is homophonic as "Ah San".