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Collectively, these groups are said to constitute 85 percent of the global population. Therefore, terms like ethnic minority, person of color, visible minority, and BAME were criticized as racializing ethnicity. [4] [5] [6] However, the term "global majority" has been challenged on two fronts.
In Brazil, however, assimilated Indigenous people are called caboclos (itself a subset of pardos, or brown people), the same term used for people of European and Amerindian ancestry who do not have at the same time a white-passing phenotype and a mainstream Brazilian cultural identity—which also means that caboclos are not necessarily ...
Bay Stater (official term used by state government) and Citizen of the Commonwealth (identifier used in state law) [31] Massachusettsian, [32] Massachusite, [33] [34] Masshole (derogatory [35] as an exonym; however, it can be affectionate when applied as an endonym [36]) Michigan: Michiganian
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two cents, two cents' worth an opinion, a piece of one's mind (as in, "I'm gonna go down there and give him my two cents") - (UK similar: two pence , two penneth , two penn'orth or tuppence worth )
For this reason, the term is now widely considered as degrading even when used in its original context. [11] Much like today's socially acceptable terms idiot and moron, which are also defined as some sort of mental disability, when the term retard is being used in its pejorative form, it is usually not being directed at people with mental ...
a musical note with the duration of two counts in a time signature of 4/4 (US: half note; see Note value) mobile phone (US: cell phone) [112] [113] moggie, moggy (informal) non-pedigree cat; alley cat; any cat regardless of pedigree; Morris Minor car; Morgan car Mole grips trade name for (US: Vise-Grips). mong
A 2019 report by Universities UK found that student’s race and ethnicity significantly affect their degree outcomes. According to this report from 2017–18, there was a 13% gap between the likelihood of white students and Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students graduating with a first or 2:1 degree classification. [25] [26]