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  2. Oburoni - Wikipedia

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    "Oborɔnyi fitaa," meaning "white foreigner" refers to White people, "fitaa" is the Akan word for the color "white". "Obibini-borɔnyi," meaning "black -foreigner" is an amusing (and acceptable) term for a very light-skinned African or an African who has been heavily influenced by foreign cultures.

  3. White - Wikipedia

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    The Inuit language has seven different words for seven different nuances of white. Sanskrit has specific words for bright white, the white of teeth, the white of sandalwood , the white of the autumn moon, the white of silver, the white of cow's milk, the white of pearls, the white of a ray of sunlight, and the white of stars.

  4. Color term - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, blue and other darker shades continue to be described as black, yellow and orange colors are classified with red, and other bright colors continue to be classified with white. In the Bambara language, there are three color terms: dyema (white, beige), blema (reddish, brownish), and fima (dark green, indigo, and black).

  5. Bule (term) - Wikipedia

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    An 1840 book noted that people preferred 'bulei' (white) 'hitam' (which is the current Indonesian word for black). [1] An 1869 Malay-Dutch dictionary notes the words 'balar', 'sabun' [2] and 'andan' as referring to 'white people' (wit mensch) and 'albinos'. An 1894 Malay-English dictionary noted the words 'andan' and 'bulei' as referring to ...

  6. Basic Color Terms - Wikipedia

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    All cultures have terms for black/dark and white/bright. If a culture has three color terms, the third is red. If a culture has four, it has either yellow or green. Berlin and Kay posit seven levels in which cultures fall, with Stage I languages having only the colors black (dark–cool) and white (light–warm). Languages in Stage VII have ...

  7. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    The study included data collected from speakers of twenty different languages from a range of language families. Berlin and Kay identified eleven possible basic color categories: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray.

  8. Other White - Wikipedia

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    Languages; British English, Polish, Romanian, Italian ... The term Other White, or White Other, is a classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom, ...

  9. White people - Wikipedia

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    The term "White race" or "White people", defined by their light skin among other physical characteristics, entered the major European languages in the later seventeenth century, when the concept of a "unified White" achieved greater acceptance in Europe, in the context of racialized slavery and social status in the European colonies.