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  2. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]

  3. Faux pas derived from Chinese pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Certain customs regarding good and bad luck are important to many Chinese people. Although these might be regarded as superstitions by people from other cultures, these customs are often tied to religious traditions and are an important part of many people's belief systems , even among well-educated people and affluent sectors of society.

  4. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    The meaning added through the loan of homonymous sounds is the phonetic-loan meaning (simplified Chinese: 假借义; traditional Chinese: 假借義; pinyin: jiǎ jiè yì). For example, the original meaning of "其 (qí)" is "dustpan", and its pronoun usage of "his, her, its" is a phonetic-loan meaning.

  5. Mongolian idiocy - Wikipedia

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    While the term "idiot" is, in the present day, not used in a medical, legal or psychiatric context, instead meaning a stupid or foolish person, the term previously held meaning as a technical term used in both legal and psychiatric contexts for some type of profound intellectual disability, wherein the disabled person's mental age was considered to be two years or less.

  6. Special education in China - Wikipedia

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    The number of disabled people living in the rural areas of China is 75% of the disabled population, compared to the urban which held 25% of the disabled population. Specifically relating to school-aged population, disabled children at the age between 6-14 reached to 2.46 million, 2.96% of the total disabled population.

  7. Category:Chinese people with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Chinese people. It includes Chinese people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from China .

  8. ‘Bad Blood’ song lyrics meaning: Who is Taylor Swift singing ...

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    And baby, now we got bad blood (hey!) ‘Cause baby, now we got bad blood. You know it used to be mad love. So take a look what you’ve done (look what you’ve done) ‘Cause baby, now we got ...

  9. Asian handicap - Wikipedia

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    Asian handicap betting is a form of betting on football in which teams are handicapped according to their form so that a stronger team must win by more goals for a bet on them to win. The system originated in Indonesia [ citation needed ] and gained popularity in the early 21st century.