‘Clique’- A group of people such as friends. Often used when discussing stereotypes. Stereotypical meaning: Group of goths, preps, emos, punk, etc.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Racial Slurring =ABSURD!
Looking up racial name calling currently and the list is extremely long! Some of the more outrageous terms I would have never guessed are as followed:
THESE MAY OFFEND! I AM DOING THIS AS RESEARCH ONLY! NOT TO OFFEND!
Buffie
THESE MAY OFFEND! I AM DOING THIS AS RESEARCH ONLY! NOT TO OFFEND!
- ABCD
- (South Asians in the U.S.) American-Born Confused Desi, a term used to refer to Indian Americans, Pakistani Americans or other South Asians, term as "desi," who were born in the United States. The condescending term is used chiefly by South Asian Immigrants to imply confusion about cultural identity.
- Ape
- (U.S.) a black person.
- Asian nigger
- An ethnic slur against Filipinos
- Banana
- (North America; UK) An Asian person living in a Western country (e.g., an Asian American) who is yellow on the outside, white on the inside. Used primarily by Asians to indicate someone who has lost touch with his or her cultural identity.[14]
- Beaner
- (U.S.) term widely regarded as derogatory, that refers to people of Mexican descent or, more specifically, mestizos of Central American descent.[15][16][17] The term originates from the prevalence of frijoles pintos and other beans in Mexican food.
Buffie
- a. Black person.[31]
- b. (U.S.) a young, brown-skinned person 1940s–1950s
- Chonky
- refers to a person of Chinese heritage with white attributes whether being a personality aspect or physical aspect.[
- Eskimo
- A native North American from the northernmost inhabitable areas. In some areas it is considered pejorative,
- Frog
- (Canada, UK and US) A French person.
- Half Caste
- (UK) Derogatory term against people who are born of mixed race.[96] Often shortened to 'Halfie
- Oreo
- (US) A racial slur for being black on the outside and white on the inside, hinted by the appearance of an Oreo cookie.
- Ugly American
- An epithet common internationally as an insult directed at a citizen of the United States, common usage is against tourists and travellers along with US corporate businesses in the particular area.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
–noun
1.
a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
2.
a population so related.
3.
Anthropology .
a.
any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics: no longer in technical use.
b.
an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, esp. formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.
c.
a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.
4.
a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.
5.
any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.: the Dutch race.
6.
the human race or family; humankind: Nuclear weapons pose a threat to the race.
7.
Zoology . a variety; subspecies.
8.
a natural kind of living creature: the race of fishes.
9.
any group, class, or kind, esp. of persons: Journalists are an interesting race.
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–noun
Words to base my ideas on for understanding, learning, and scripting about racial issues like assimilation and other related topics. Turning a negative into a positive. Why do we do it? Is the media distorting we we see to what the media wants us to see? Races against the same race being slightly differed in skin? These question will have not so much answers but a better understanding hopefully by the end of the semester.1.
defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
2.
a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name.
3.
Law . defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.
racial discrimination | |
Part of Speech: | noun |
Definition: | prejudice based on race |
Synonyms: | Anti-Semitism, race discrimination, race prejudice, race snobbery, racialism, racism |
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