Pejorative terms for people

Brazil. Its signal reaches 98% of the Brazilian counties totaling 5,490 cities gathering an average of 170 million viewers in the country. Also, through Globo Internacional, it is present in more than 100 countries and is seen by around 130 million people outside the national territory. Among its products are journalism, soap operas, miniseries and entertainment programs. The Rede Globo also has the image rights of sports championships (national and international) and broadcast, every year, the…

them, there were Joseph Conrad and Stanley. In their writings, their main claim is that Africa is a jungle where live “savages” but also an unhistorical part of the world. Indeed, throughout their texts, there are a lot of animalistic, pejorative and inhuman terms used to qualify Africans. For instance, Stanley points out “our expedition was, however, becoming thinned in these repeated attacks made on us by such piratical cannibals” (Stanley 2). From this quote, African’s behavior is comparable…

Language has the power to marginalize people Humans are creatures seeking to gain power in every possible way and so forth even in their use of language. In today’s society a common strategy to gain authority and power is to dehumanize, denigrate and to make a person or group feel less cofident. The pronouns ”girl”, ”woman”, ”female” etc are frequently used and referred to in a condescending way, for example to claim that someone is a bad runner: ”you run like a girl” or a bad driver ”you drive…

manifesto“El Plan de Santa Barbara”, they outline the basic ideas of what it means to be Chicanx. Using this document, we can determine what Mexican-Americans believed to be the root of their struggle and the type of people it would take to overcome it. The manifesto starts off by saying “For all peoples … the time comes when they must reckon with their history” (Mintz 195) and relates to the Chicano struggle by saying “Our struggle, tempered by the American past, is an historical reality”…

To descend briefly into political philosophy, even before the term “Social Darwinism” was coined to justify systematic, self-serving sociopathic behavior, there have been predators amongst us. These Individuals did not —and do not— accept the notion of a social compact. An implicit agreement of mutual cooperation that sets self-enforced limits on individual freedoms and desires in exchange for the protection and happiness of the whole. Whatever their stripe, whatever their place in the social…

as the differences between them. The long-established term (antisemitism), used to refer to the hostility and discrimination against the Jews, consists of two part (anti and Semitism). The word Semites incorporate the group of people who speak languages that mainly includes Arabic and Hebrew. According to Encyclopedia Britannica “Semite, a person speaking one of a group of related languages, presumably derived from a common language. The term came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, some…

The term redneck has been used for years to describe the labor intensive work of working class whites residing in rural America. This transformed into a pejorative word to describe southern males who act stereotypically of low class, uneducated, and uncultured. Redneck may be stereotypically synonymous to the terms ‘hillbilly’ and ‘white trash’. The main stereotypes of the label ‘redneck’ include, men who are racist and homophobic in nature, with a huge infatuation with guns, and alcohol and…

unilateralism is really just a new form of American isolationism (as Cited in Dunn, 2005, p. 246). Bear Braumoeller (2010) is quite straightforward, stating that isolationism in the U.S. is simply a myth (p. 1). Although Braumoeller’s idea may not be sufficiently rigorous nor historically responsible, this indicates the convoluted denotations of isolationism. Through history, as what above has showed, persisted definition debate over isolationism seemly never ends even for scholars. Not to…

definitions, the Oxford English Dictionary definition, defines a slum “first as a squalid and overcrowded urban area inhabited by very poor people, and second as a house or building unfit for human habitation” (p.37). When looking at the favelas their homes are fit for human habitation and therefore do not fit this definition even if it is inhabited by poor people. Another definition for slums that Perlman (2009) states is the Cities Alliance definition. Cities Alliance defines slums by deficits…

Sweatshop or sweat factory is a pejorative term for a workplace that has poor, socially unacceptable working conditions. Work at this type of factories is difficult, dangerous and underpaid. Sweatshops may also violate child labor laws and ignore the minimum wage stablished by law. According to Fair Labor Association around eighteen countries operate sweatshops including Bangladesh, Romania, Costa Rica, El Salvador, China, the Dominican Republic, India, Vietnam, Honduras, Indonesia, Armenia,…