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  2. Endonym and exonym - Wikipedia

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    An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their place of origin, or their language.

  3. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    Writing in French, Bernier uses the term race, or synonymously espece "kind, species", where Hornius had used tribus "tribe" or populus "people". Bernier explicitly rejects a categorization based on skin color, arguing that the dark skin of Indians is due to exposure to the Sun only, and that the yellowish colour of some Asians, while a genuine ...

  4. Miscegenation - Wikipedia

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    Miscegenation (/ m ɪ ˌ s ɛ dʒ ə ˈ n eɪ ʃ ən / mih-SEJ-ə-NAY-shən) is a pejorative term for a marriage or admixture between people who are members of different races. [1]Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society.

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    more than half of all votes, people, etc. (UK: absolute majority) make out to draw up, to seek to make it appear, to fabricate a story to see with difficulty; to understand the meaning of to kiss (see Making out) to succeed or profit ("She made out well on that deal.") * marinara sauce: sauce containing seafood, usu. in a tomato base

  6. Demonyms for the United States - Wikipedia

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    People from the United States of America are known as and refer to themselves as Americans. Different languages use different terms for citizens of the United States. All forms of English refer to US citizens as Americans, a term deriving from the United States of America, the country's official name.

  7. Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people - Wikipedia

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    Many people had assorted jobs before taking the one that made them notable; those other jobs should not be categorized. Similarly, celebrities commercializing a fragrance should not be in the perfumers category ; not everything a celebrity does after becoming famous warrants categorization.

  8. White people - Wikipedia

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    White is a racial classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry.It is also a skin color specifier, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, ethnicity and point of view.

  9. Person - Wikipedia

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    A person (pl.: people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.