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FEDERATION: RACISM
GLOSSARY
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Term
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Explanation
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| chauvinism |
the belief that your nationality, gender, culture or class is superior
to others (also warlike patriotism) |
| abiding |
long-term, permanent |
| rebutment |
argument to disprove something |
| “salvability” |
ability to be saved, capability of saving (a soul) |
| Asiatics |
people from Asia |
| paupers |
poor people, people with no property or means of earning a living |
| omission |
failure to perform a duty, the act of overlooking or leaving out
(something important) |
| encroachment |
gradual, unlawful taking over of territory; creeping invasion |
| peculiar |
special, distinguished |
| admixture |
mingling, adding ingredients |
| Kanaka |
(person) from the Pacific Islands. Labourers from the Pacific Islands
were shipped into colonial Queensland to work on sugar plantations
etc. |
| mongrel |
of mixed descent |
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