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Anti-Scottish sentiment is disdain, discrimination, or hatred for Scotland, the Scots, or Scottish culture. It may also include the persecution or oppression of the Scottish people as an ethnic group or nation .
In linguistics, an echo answer or echo response is a way of answering a polar question without using words for yes and no.The verb used in the question is simply echoed in the answer, negated if the answer has a negative truth-value. [1]
On December 2, 2015, in the wake of the San Bernardino mass shooting, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted his frustration with the phrase "thoughts and prayers", a sentiment echoed by the December 3 cover of the New York Daily News, which included tweets from senators and representatives the newspaper characterized as "meaningless platitudes".
Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept ...
An echo chamber is "an environment where a person only encounters information or opinions that reflect and reinforce their own." [1]In news media and social media, an echo chamber is an environment or ecosystem in which participants encounter beliefs that amplify or reinforce their preexisting beliefs by communication and repetition inside a closed system and insulated from rebuttal.
Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness) is a complex, multilayered emotion [1] that has been described as a mixture of disappointment, disgust and anger. [2] Other psychologists consider it a mood [ 3 ] or as a secondary emotion (including cognitive elements) that can be elicited in the face of insult or injury.
They are "internal phenomena that can, but do not always, make themselves observable through expression and behavior". [2] While emotions themselves are universal, they are always influenced by culture. How they are experienced, expressed, perceived, and regulated varies according to cultural norms and values. [3]
A polar echo question (also known as a pure echo [2]) repeats some or all of the stimulus, with a rising intonation. It bears some similarity to the rising declarative. A variable echo question involves substituting one (or more) elements of the stimulus with a wh word.