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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; 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 ...
The term literally means '[person/people] of Jesus' in India and Pakistan, but in the latter country, Isai has been pejoratively used by non-Christians to refer to 'street sweepers' or 'labourers', occupations that have been held by Christian workers of Dalit ancestry. [13]
Barely legal: [6] A term used to market pornography featuring young people who are "barely legal" (only just reached legal age of majority or the age of consent, or both). The term fetishizes young people sexually. Bed blocker: [7] A derogatory term used to describe older people taking up hospital beds in a healthcare system.
Paki is a derogatory ethnic slur originating from the United Kingdom, directed towards people of Pakistani and by extension South Asian (mainly Indian and Bangladeshi) descent, [1] [2] as well as Muslims or perceived Muslims (such as Hindus and Sikhs) in general.
There are some movies that are exactly as bad as everyone says, and if they’re mentioned as part of the “so bad it’s good” film club, they have been wrongly and egregiously grandfathered ...
Positive misanthropes are active enemies of humanity. They wish harm to other people and undertake attempts to hurt them in one form or another. Negative misanthropy, by contrast, is a form of peaceful anthropophobia that leads people to isolate themselves. They may wish others well despite seeing serious flaws in them and prefer to not involve ...
The controversy over the coal-burning plant on the Gulf of Kutch comes at a bad time for the World Bank Group, which has been trying to position itself as a leader in the fight against climate change. The bank’s governing board pledged in 2013 to limit its funding for coal-burning plants to “rare circumstances.”
Dick explores the idea of alternate history in his own fiction, with works such as The Man in the High Castle, where the Axis powers won World War II instead of the Allies. He also connects this to Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, his novel about a dystopian police state where people slip into more idealized, alternate worlds. Dick then ties ...