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Princeton's WordNet

  1. White race, White people, Caucasoid race, Caucasian racenoun

    a light-skinned race

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  1. White people

    White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view. Description of populations as "White" in reference to their skin color predates this notion and is occasionally found in Greco-Roman ethnography and other ancient or medieval sources, but these societies did not have any notion of a White or pan-European race. 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" achieve universal acceptance in Europe, in the context of racialized slavery and unequal social status in the European colonies. Scholarship on race distinguishes the modern concept from pre-modern descriptions, which focused on physical complexion rather than race. Prior to the modern era, no European peoples regarded themselves as "White", but rather defined their race, ancestry, or ethnicity in terms of their nationality.Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified, distinguishable "White race" as socially constructed, rather than scientific.

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  1. White People

    White People is the second and final album by Handsome Boy Modeling School.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of white people in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of white people in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of white people in a Sentence

  1. Australian Aboriginal Elder:

    You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

  2. Anthony Jack:

    It's so written into the American imagination that these spots( at prestigious institutions) are for white people and anytime a black student or a Latinx student gets in, it's taking a spot away from them. That's not what's happening.

  3. Dennis Wiersma:

    The Netherlands is a country of freedom, one that stands for the equal value of men and women, gay and straight people, black and white people, those who support these values, will feel at home in the Netherlands. But those who do not, do not belong here.

  4. Isaiah Henry:

    It's only telling one perspective of white people in America ... so by them (buyers of anti-discrimination books) educating themselves on the truth, they can understand their place in the global picture.

  5. Ezra Dolezal:

    When she applied they thought she was a black student, when she came there, they saw she was white and she wasn't treated that well, especially by people that worked there. She probably started developing this kind of dislike for being white and dislike for white people. She used to tell Izaiah ... that all white people are racists. She might have developed some self-hatred.


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