The " discovery " of these alleged etymologies is often believed by those who circulate them to draw attention to racist attitudes embedded in ordinary discourse.

While working in Borneo in 1911, Gardner eschewed the racist attitudes of his colleagues by befriended members of the Dayak indigenous community, fascinated by their magico-religious beliefs, tattoos and displays of weaponry.

Gardner was unhappy with the working conditions and the racist attitudes of his colleagues, and when he developed malaria he felt that this was the last straw ; he left Borneo and moved to Singapore in what was then known as Malaya.

Historical economic or social disparity is alleged to be a form of discrimination caused by past racism and historical reasons, affecting the present generation through deficits in the formal education and kinds of preparation in previous generation, and through primarily unconscious racist attitudes and actions on members of the general population.

As a result, racial groups possessing relatively little power often find themselves excluded or oppressed, while hegemonic individuals and institutions are charged with holding racist attitudes.

Bahrain Centre for Human Rights issued a press release condemning this decision as discriminatory and promoting negative racist attitudes towards migrant workers.

Curry & Chips set out to satirize racist attitudes in Britain in a similar vein to Speight's earlier creation, the hugely successful Till Death Us Do Part, with Milligan ' blacking up ' to play Kevin O ' Grady, a half-Pakistani / half-Irish factory worker.

Scholars have traditionally focused attention on Melville's treatment of race, and the narrator's portrayal of his hosts as noble savages, but there is considerable disagreement as to what extent the values, attitudes and beliefs expressed are Melville's own, and whether Typee reinforces or challenges racist assessments of Pacific culture.

Starting in the late 1940s, the Oakland Police Department began recruiting officers from the South to deal with the expanding black population and changing racial attitudes ; many were openly racist, and their repressive police tactics exacerbated racial tensions.

Stereotypes embodied in the stock characters of blackface minstrels not only played a significant role in cementing and proliferating racist images, attitudes and perceptions worldwide, but also in popularizing black culture.

Some minstrel shows, particularly when performing outside the South, also managed subtly to poke fun at the racist attitudes and double standards of white society or champion the abolitionist cause.

However, any particular accusation of classism does not, as such, presuppose any such claim, just as people may agree on examples of overt racism, while disagreeing intensely over how widespread or deep-seated racist attitudes are in their society.

Though Levit did not consider himself to be a racist, he was bowing to the prevailing attitudes of many European Americans during the 1950s, considering housing and racial relations entirely separate matters.

Fourth, it was politically vital to get all elements of French society involved in the war, including former Vichyites, many of whom had adopted racist attitudes toward Jews, etc., and could be similarly expected to have negative feelings toward the blacks.

While replete with racist stereotypes, Barnum's shows satirized white racial attitudes, as in a stump speech in which a black phrenologist ( like all minstrel performers, a white man in blackface ) made a dialect speech parodying lectures given at the time to " prove " the superiority of the white race: " You see den, dat clebber man and dam rascal means de same in Dutch, when dey boph white ; but when one white and de udder's black, dat's a grey hoss ob anoder color.

The volunteers scored lower on a range of psychological tests designed to reveal any racist attitudes than a group who took a placebo.

It is a response to global ( Eurocentric / Orientalist ) racist attitudes about African people and their historical contributions and revisits their history with an African cultural and ideological focus.

The most famous hardcore band though was St. Louis ' White Pride, whose parody of racist attitudes was often lost on their audiences.

One major obstacle was the military, whose upper echelons were larded with men from Argentina's old agricultural elites ( many of whom were ultraconservative and had well-documented racist, anti-Semitic attitudes and fascist ties ).

When he, victim of antisemitism, is berated by her for his racist attitudes, he replies, " It's not even to compare, the schwartsers and the Jews!

A 1978 study by the RAND Corporation set out to find why whites were opposed to busing and concluded that it was not because they held racist attitudes, but because they believed it destroyed neighborhood schools and camaraderie and increased discipline problems.

They do this through their racist attitudes, actions and beliefs which put the natives lower in the power hierarchy by treating them as lesser humans who need the English aid.

Sir William Macpherson used the term as a description of " the collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin ", which " can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes, and behaviour, which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness, and racist stereotyping, which disadvantages minority ethnic people ".

A major determinant for Walker ’ s move to Boston was the fact that white proslavery attitudes and racist behaviors had hardened across the country as anxiety escalated about the visible organizing of enclaves of free blacks.

One of Hofstadter's columns in Scientific American concerned the damaging effects of sexist language, and two chapters of his book Metamagical Themas are devoted to that topic, one of which is a biting analogy-based satire entitled " A Person Paper on Purity in Language ", in which the reader's presumed revulsion at racism and racist language is used as a lever to motivate an analogous revulsion at sexism and sexist language.

The series generated numerous complaints because of its frequent use of racist epithets and ' bad language ' - one viewer reportedly complained of counting 59 uses of the word " bloody " in one episode-and it was cancelled on the orders of the Independent Broadcasting Authority after only six episodes.

Nineteenth-century English ( language ) literature features usages of nigger without racist connotation, e. g. the Joseph Conrad novella The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' ( 1897 ).

Key prosecution witness Detective Mark Fuhrman, of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) – who denied using racist language on duty – impeached himself with his prolific use of nigger in tape recordings about his police work.

Others have criticised Haddock's calling them " addle-pated lumps of anthracite ", but Hergé did not intend to be racist – Captain Haddock is well known for his frequently colourful language, which comprises almost 200 insults in total.

However, recent research has indicated that the HOLC did not redline in its own lending activities, and that the racist language reflected the bias of the private sector and experts hired to conduct the appraisals.

The series provoked a storm of complaints about its liberal use of racist epithets and bad language ( although Sykes refused to swear, as he did throughout his career ).

These changes are seen by some critics to be another step in the evolution of the text of the Book of Mormon to delete racist language from it.

A columnist for the Japan Times, an English language newspaper in Japan, denounced the policy as " racist " as it only offered Japanese-blooded foreigners who possessed the special " person of Japanese ancestry " visa the option to receive money in return for repatriation to their home countries.

Garcetti initially refused, saying that Fuhrman's use of racist language was " not material to the case ", a major element of proving perjury.

Tatchell denounced a " naked appeal to homophobia and xenophobia " echoing " the racist, xenophobic language of the BNP ", and Yosef apologised, claiming the " slap in the face " remark was a " figure of speech ".

And it does in its current form, if you want me to use some inflammatory language, in its current form should be destroyed ... Just like the UN in its current form should be destroyed, just like the American empire in its current form should be destroyed, just like the British empire in its current form should be destroyed, just like every corrupt, racist government should be destroyed.

Grijalva has criticized armed civilian groups that patrol the Mexican border, accusing them of being “ racist ” and has reportedly used demeaning language to describe them.

He uses racist language — " What do you Japs mean by this character?

In Johnson's case, it is held that the authorities are using the Act's ambiguous language to justify a selective prosecution which amounts to harassment, based on their desire to deprive him of his title for racist reasons.

He also described the 2010 Haiti earthquake as God's judgment on the Haitian people, for their long running satanic practices, whom he described using racist language.

This, however, has not diminished the condemnation he has received from anti-racist groups and the public at large, who question whether Atkinson would have resigned had the comment not been accidentally broadcast and note that it was not the first time he had used racist language.

Emre received a two-game ban for his actions, after it was concluded that he had used abusive, but not racist, language by the authorities.

Video of brutal hazing rituals also came to light, including a video from the summer of 1992 which showed 1 Commando engaging in " hijinks " ranging from smearing faeces on each other, to bestiality ; the black soldier Christopher Robin was shown on all fours with a leash, led around like a dog, with the phrase " I Love KKK " written on his back, while surrounding soldiers screamed about White Power and jeered, one demonstrating his objection to Black soldiers in the Airborne through racist language.

TV broadcasts are nowadays rare because of Ginley's use of racist language and insults ( such as calling a black African character " Mighty Joe Young " and a " spade "-see List of ethnic slurs ).

The managing director of the hotel denied that racist language had been used.

The original edition of the book included language and plot elements that are considered racist by present-day standards, though probably not intended as such by the writer.