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The term wop originated as an acronym, WOP, which stands for With Out Papers. Some Italian immigrants arrived in the US without a passport of birth certificate, and therefore were without papers, which is a bureaucratic complication. Immigrants need to be able to establish their legal identity. Ironically, the term wop is still used even for people of Italian descent who were born in the US and obviously have all the usual documents.

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