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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 a racial classification specifier, used mostly and often exclusively for people of European descent, depending on the context, geographical location and the society where the term is used. The definition of "white person" can be fluid, changing over time, place, and existing social and political contexts. The concept of white race or "whiteness" has been used as a means of social stratification, creating a system of privilege by skin color, and has been criticized as a social construct.

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  1. White People

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

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  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. Robert Gangi:

    White people in [ the affluent Brooklyn neighborhood of ] Park Slope virtually never get ticketed for these kind of activities whereas African-American and Latino people in different neighborhoods in this city will get sanctioned — ticketed and sometimes arrested.

  2. Dan Gainor:

    Can you imagine The New York Times running an essay where a white woman complains about how African-American men are rude and then blames it on race? The paper and the author would be skewered, the left's new default is that white people are doing wrong at every turn -- even walking down the street.

  3. Christelyn Karazin:

    It's redundant. The reason why we don't need Where White People Meet is the same reason we need (other race-based) dating websites.

  4. Hair:

    The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.

  5. Bernie Sanders:

    Many white people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African-Americans, especially younger African-Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments. I think for most whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they don't interact with the police as much as those in the black community.


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