Since race was scientifically invalidated in the aftermath of the Holocaust, there has been extensive academic debate about its conceptual significance particularly in the ‘Global North’ where alternative terms and concepts have been offered up to...
I live in Canada. Everybody gets stuck in the snow on occasion. When you do, you’ll always have someone stop to help push your car out and get you on the way. One time I slid up the curb and got stuck in a small snowbank at 2 am on New Years (it was a patch of ice, no...
The current framework of Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Other (CMIO) thus serves to manage diversity while at the same time maintaining separate racial groupings. Measuring mixed race has proved complex in this context, with Singapore codifying some forms of mixedness and overlooking other types of...
To compound matters, the meaning of “race” has changed over time. At some point in time, “race” meant each of the things described above. And today’s Merriam-Webster Dictionary recognizes all of these definitions, plus a few more, such as “the human race.” Science doesn’t support...
a作为语言学习者,你本身是 语言学习过程中最为重要的因素 As the language learner, your itself is in the language study process the most important factor[translate] a对不起,我误会你的意思了。请你原谅。 Sorry, I misunderstood your meaning.Asks you to forgive.[translate] ...
Names are linguistic codes representing individuals in meaning and sound. Bean (1978: 14) notes that "participants in a speech act may bring almost any combination of social identities to it." This article aims to explore how in multilingual Singapore, Chinese names reflect the race, religion ...
afterward, and to say that if there was an Eminem, if there was an Adele, if there were people of this kind, can we really not have a white person playing a black person with it having a different meaning than it did when Tess Gardella was up on stage playing Queenie in 1927?
Dear Ms. Mary Three Names, what in HELL are you talking about? How could I introduce you to a word whose meaning I don’t KNOW, slur or not? Perhaps you should take a powder and swoon already. Mary Three Names: “Mary Robinette Kowal @MaryRobinette · 12h12 hours ago Thank you to...