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nonracial

nonracial

1 4.1
Not based on a person's race
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈreɪʃəl/
translation icon : no racial
  • Efforts towards nonracial governance are essential for the country’s future success.
  • nonracial citizenship
  • nonracial discrimination
  • nonracial factors

Examples

  • The process of democratization will certainly test South Africa's commitment to nonracial citizenship.

    Academic text (1998)
  • After centuries of racial domination, it would be unrealistic to expect an ethos of nonracial citizenship to prevail unchallenged by older political perceptions.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Is what one is seeing here the re-beginning of a South African nonracial residential experience?

    Academic text (2001)
  • The failure to win in all provinces was a blow to the nonracial philosophy of the ANC.

    Academic text (1997)
  • In multiracial societies, including South Africa, the challenge is often to make nonracial citizenship a popular identity.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Will South Africans continue to share his abiding sense of nonracial citizenship?

    Academic text (1998)
  • Delft South now stands as one of the first truly post-apartheid examples of nonracial community interaction and urban transformation.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The ANC specifically demanded a unitary, nonracial, "one-person, one-vote" political system.

    Academic text (1996)
  • In a nonracial society, people are treated equally regardless of their background.

  • The organization promotes nonracial values to foster harmony among diverse groups.

Synonyms

nonracist
vsnonracial
1 4.2

Being fair to people of different races

is unrelated to race and applies to things that have no racial connection

Antonyms

553 3.7

About differences between groups of people with different skin colour or family background

How Racial

racial
553 3.7
nonracial
1 4.1

Surface Forms

nonracial positive

Morphology

nonracial = racial (transparent) = non + race + ial

The word is transparently formed by adding the negative prefix 'non-' to 'racial'.

Etymology

The word nonracial is made from non- meaning 'not' and race meaning a 'group of people'. So nonracial simply means 'not related to race', used when something is fair or not based on a person's race.