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Maggot(s) in the rice: [25] A derogatory term in contemporary Chinese culture referring to baby girls; the term is typically associated with 20th century China's authoritarian "One Child Policy", which limited birth of children per family and also favoured male children. China's government has since implemented efforts to change this perception.
In another study looking at do-gooder derogation in children, participants preferred a more generous character throughout the study, which has inconsistencies with do-gooder derogation. However, when the child's generosity was less than that of another child, it didn't reverse their preference for the more generous child; their preference for ...
Postcard depicting eight black children, titled "Eight Little Pickaninnies Kneeling in a row, Puerto Rico", published in 1902 or 1903. The origins of the word pickaninny (and its alternative spellings picaninny and piccaninny ) are disputed; it may derive from the Portuguese term for a small child, pequenino , meaning "tiny". [ 3 ]
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names
Three teens face charges after a Marta bus driver, identified as Leroy Ramos, was killed, officials say.
"Dean used to help me wrap all the gifts, but obviously, now I'm a single mom, separate households," Spelling says of her ex-husband Dean McDermott, with whom she shares her five kids — Liam, 17 ...
Derogation is a legal term of art, [1] [2] which allows for part or all of a provision in a legal measure to be applied differently, or not at all, in certain cases. [3] The term is also used in Catholic canon law, [4] [full citation needed] and in this context differs from dispensation in that it applies to the law, whereas dispensation applies to specific people affected by the law.
Three employees at a Maryland Cracker Barrel have reportedly been dismissed after staff refused to seat a group of students with special needs on Dec. 3 Superintendent of Charles County Public ...