White person
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4.0
- noun
- /waɪt ˈpɜrsən/
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persona blanca
- Many white people are beginning to engage in conversations about racial equality and justice.
- White people unite
- many white people
- rich white people
And look, I'm just a white person so I only have my experience.
- And look, I'm just a white person so I only have my experience.
- Like what's, what's your advice to a white person during the times right, right now?
- Are you asking if a white person can play a black person?
- When was the last time a non white person was put in jail for race hatred?
- And every white person knows what white people say in white circles.
- So you, you know, you couldn't even in the South, you couldn't look a white person in the eye walking down the street.
- When the black person is full out with, you know, their lyrics, they invite a white person on stage.
- This is the most first world rich white person problem.
- Like if I don't know if you know about this in China, Chinese people love white people who can speak Mandarin as well as we can.
- So I came up with this idea of a YouTube web video series of, of black people teaching white people how to talk to their black friends.
- She's like the things she works on American Horror Story, she's working on Dear White People.
- So, you know, historically this whole, you know, it, it comes from white people being better than darker skinned people, right?
- People of every race, color and creed will be on hand to give a trophy to whatever white person wins.
- It's like, listen, like we want to be average as a white person that's average and treated the same way.
Examples
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We both hung around maybe too many white people growing up.
Fiction book (1991) -
And there was no doubt that she would have been the only white person at the service.
Fiction book (1990) -
And look, I'm just a white person so I only have my experience.
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Like what's, what's your advice to a white person during the times right, right now?
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I got used to seeing Koreans, and was surprised whenever I saw a white person.
Blog text (2) -
I mean, I feel like with so much of what, you know, as a white person, there's so much to be learned, so much to be learned.
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Sung-Ohk slipped into a tight Chinese-doll dress and jeweled cat eyes, sang to smoky crowds of white people from out of town.
Fiction book (1990) -
During the discussion, he acknowledged his privileges as a white person in a diverse society.
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She felt out of place as the only white person in the group of friends she met at the festival.
Synonyms
759
4.4
A person with light or pale skin, often from Europe
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6.1
A person usually identified as white, often with family origins in Europe
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'white' (light-skinned or of European descent) combined with 'person' yields 'a person who is white', so a B1 learner who knows both words can derive this sense. Capitalization (White) can signal the sociopolitical racial category, but that nuance does not prevent the basic meaning being transparently inferable, and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically.
Etymology
White person comes from using white to describe someone with 'light skin' and person to mean an individual. Because people long ago used simple color words to group others, White person came to mean someone of European descent or someone identified by lighter skin.