Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...encourage the nation's black middle class to embrace wine. Such consumers splurge on luxury cars, clothes and homes, but stick with traditional beer and spirits. "There are at least 10 wine festivals per year in Johannesburg, and you can count on one hand the number of people of color who attend them," says Marilyn Cooper, who runs the local branch of the Cape Wine Academy and is one of the festival's organizers. "We have got to get our black population drinking wine." Talk to some of the locals at the festival, and there are encouraging signs of change...
George A. Thampy ’10: Omphaloskepsis. It means the contemplation of one’s navel; [words like this] give the English language its color, its vibrancy...
...went into this believing that being a UC rep for me, a person of color, would be in some ways more meaningful than if I were just part of a majority group and won,” he said. “They gave statistics on how few minorities have done the UC in the past, [and] how it was typically viewed as an all-white organization...
...people of color who were on the UC [because of] ‘Vote or Die’ were extremely important in helping to bring a coalition together to navigate the politics of the UC,” he said. “It wouldn’t have happened without a diverse student council who knew members of the different student groups helping to plan the Aids Summit...
...color of your anti-Chen campaign. Why? It represents anger and passion, and it liberates our prohibition on color. In the Chiang Kai-shek era, it was prohibited to wear red [because it was the Communist color]. This campaign has done one thing: it has freed people from the fear of color. Now red is uniting the people of Taiwan...