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I guess I'd only ever heard of "Goth" used as a modern description of (mostly young) people who are into things that many others would consider macabre or morbid. I had heard much earlier the term "visigoth" applied much the same as as someone might call another person a philistine.
The people who are not like us are bad. One of several derogatory terms named after groups of bad people:
General terms: Barbarian (My Greek bud says this came from the Greek habit of describing how non-Greeks spoke - "Bar Bar Bar" or as we might say today "blah blah blah". That is nonGreek was gibberish.)
Savage - apparently a bastardization of sylvaticus (from the woods)
Heathen - Infidel (unconverted person) but usually intimating hedonism or depravity of some sort -- maybe these terms don't belong in either of these groups.
For specific groups: Vandal - the germanic tribe or a generic destroyer
Goth - germanic tribe and as per awad.
Philistine - ignorant, materialistic, or uncultured person or resident of philistia
Hun - conqueror or (well) a specific conquering nomadic tribe.
Spartan - not necessarily a negative connotation, I guess.
Mongol - person from mongolia or a person with down's syndrome (i think this term was "meant" to be descriptive and not intentionally derogatory.)
Cossack - is this one? I vaguely recall the term being used to describe a lower class soldier. I'm not sure.
(Interestingly "viking" doesn't have the negative connotation - at least in my own mind.)
Odd observation: the terms parochial (narrow, often blindly or ignorantly so) and catholic (universal or eclectic) are almost antonyms.
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