Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stink from arsehole to breakfast time." Wendy Craig, as the young employer's upper-class fiancée in The Servant, turns her sneering attention to the new butler (Dirk Bogarde) and asks him, "Do you use a deodorant? Do you think you go well with the color scheme?" The father in The Homecoming calls his new lady guest "a stinking pox-ridden slut" as well as a slop bucket and a bedpan. "Take that disease away from me," he commands...
...purely theoretical situation, we're sure. You walk into a Best Buy to check out digital cameras. One model has a higher resolution than another, but you can't tell the difference in picture quality. The higher res camera costs an extra $120 and doesn't come in the color you want. Still...
...Chinese newspapers over the nature of "universal values." Opinion writers have argued whether pluralism is a western creation with limited application to China, or a political ideal for all nations. Columnist Sima Nan wrote on his blog that the charter was a dangerous attempt to promote a Chinese "color revolution," referring to pro-democracy movements in Ukraine and Georgia...
...Physically, Han Chinese, the majority population in China, look little like Uyghurs. Uyghurs’ skin color is more tan and eye and hair color more varied, with facial structures more stereotypically Western. Because of such physical differences, Uyghurs are often asked to infiltrate on behalf of the Chinese government “because the Chinese cannot,” Beydulla said...
...Clash,” a big pink book. But maybe it’s appropriate. The Clash, after all, were a band that refused to bow to anyone’s expectations about how they should look, act, or sound, and yet much of their legend has been colored by words written by others. Perhaps the pink cover is the band’s way of saying, “This is what really happened.” “The Clash” contains the band’s own words about their history, from their 1976 formation...