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Pre-Islamic Persian term referring to people who are both non-Iranians and non-Zoroastrians, most used in Middle Persian and Early Modern Persian texts. [3] Ang mo A Hokkien term (Min Nan Chinese: 红毛, lit. 'red hair') referring to white people. Ausländer Ausländer is a German word meaning foreigner or alien. Literally "out-land-er".
List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with negative connotations; Category:Sex- and gender ...
Non-standard: You need a couple of money guys (serious big money), then it doesn't hurt if you have a minority owner or two with some cache in said city to help win over the local fans. [ 34 ] Non-standard : Despite the celebrity status, big-name athletes seem to have more cache with average Americans than their cohorts from Hollywood or the ...
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In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification [1] is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e., change in a word's meaning).
Words with specific American meanings that have different meanings in British English and/or additional meanings common to both dialects (e.g., pants, crib) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in British and American English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different ...
A stateless nation is an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own sovereign state. [1] Use of the term implies that such ethnic groups have the right to self-determination, to establish an independent nation-state with its own government.
The word was given a derogatory slant by American service men who used it to refer to Koreans. It was also used prominently during the Vietnam War, particularly towards the Viet Cong. [56] Jap (Predominantly US) a Japanese person. Shortened from the word "Japanese", often used pejoratively. Nip a Japanese person. From Nippon, first used in ...