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Princeton's WordNet

  1. White, White person, Caucasiannoun

    a member of the Caucasoid race

GCIDE

  1. White person

    A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect (as of 1913): one not having any negro blood (Ark., Okla.); one having less than one eighth of negro blood (Ala., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex.); one having less than one fourth (Mich., Neb., Ore., Va.); one having less than one half (Ohio). Since the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960's and 1970's, the term has little legal significance -- for some purposes, as in filling out questionnaires, a person's race is whatever the person claims it to be.

Wikipedia

  1. white person

    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 person

    A white person refers to an individual who identifies with or belongs to a race characterized by light pigmentation of the skin among particular populations. This racial classification is primarily associated with people of European descent, although the definition can vary based on geographical, historical, sociological, and cultural contexts. It's important to note that the term doesn't necessarily encompass the complexities of cultural identity, ethnicity or national origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of white person in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

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

Examples of white person in a Sentence

  1. Jim Heimann:

    It's basically a white person's world until the late 1950s and then obviously the mid-1960s, when things began to change as social mores changed.

  2. Emmanuel Acho:

    I fervently believe that if the White person is your problem, only the White person can be your solution.

  3. Jackman Town Manager Tom Kawczynski:

    I am not a white supremacist. I am not a racist, what gets me in trouble sometimes is I am a white person who is not ashamed to be white.

  4. Bill Maher:

    That's the problem in America. There is just one view, one true opinion. And everyone else can go sit in the corner, can we just understand that part of our sorry racial history in this country is that the point of view from a Black person is often going to be very different and sometimes shocking to a White person ?

  5. Ulish Carter:

    Black people will get extremely fired up and fight for a Trayvon Martin (the black teen fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida) or any time a white person kills a black person, or police kill a black person. You got rallies and marches and protests, you get your national leaders involved, but all these situations with blacks killing blacks, you're just as dead.

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