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Media portrayals of brown people. In the United States, mainstream media has sometimes referenced brown as a racial classification that is a threat to white America and the idea of 'America' in general. [33] This has been done through rhetoric of a "brown tide" that is changing the demographic landscape of the United States, often with an ...
Thawb (Arabic: ثوب pronounced [θo̞ːb, t-]) is the standard Arabic word for garment. It is ankle length, woven from wool or cotton, usually with long sleeves similar to a robe. Bisht (Arabic: بشت pronounced) is a traditional long, white, brown or black Arabic cloak trimmed in gold worn by men. It is usually only worn for prestige on ...
Mehndi. Mehndi (pronunciation ⓘ) is a form of temporary skin decoration using a paste created with henna. In the West, mehndi is commonly known as henna tattoo, although it is not a permanent tattoo. [1] Mehndi is a popular form of body art in South Asia and resembles similar traditions of henna as body art found in North Africa, East Africa ...
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, [a] the Horn of Africa, [b][c] Malta, [d] and in large immigrant and ...
Kaffir (/ ˈ k æ f ər /), [1] also spelled Cafri, is an exonym and an ethnic slur – the use of it in reference to black people being particularly common in South Africa.In Arabic, the word kāfir ("unbeliever") was originally applied to non-Muslims before becoming predominantly focused on pagan zanj (black African) who were increasingly used as slaves. [2]
Khubz. Khubz, alternatively transliterated as khoubz, khobez, khubez, or khubooz, [clarification needed] is the usual word for "bread" in Standard Arabic and in many of the vernaculars. Among the breads popular in Middle Eastern countries are "pocket" pita bread in the Levant and Egypt, and the flat tannur bread in Iraq.
The Lebanese people (Arabic: الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC: ash-shaʻb al-Lubnānī, Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: [eʃˈʃæʕeb ellɪbˈneːne]) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon. The term may also include those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains prior to the creation of the modern ...
A relic of the original meaning 'dusky, dark brown' survives in the Irish term daoine gorma 'Black people'. Irish language color wheel, with notes on their usage. In Old and Middle Irish, like in Welsh, glas was a blanket term for colors ranging from green to blue to various shades of gray (e.g., the glas of a sword, the glas of stone).