| 释义 |
tokenism orig. U.S.|ˈtəʊkənɪz(ə)m|
[f. token n. 16 b + -ism.]
The practice or policy of making merely a token effort or granting only minimal concessions, esp. to minority or suppressed groups.
1962N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Aug. 11 (heading) The case against tokenism. 1963Times 28 May 10/1 Tactics such as ‘tokenism’, which have been adopted in some southern states seeking to delay the process of desegregation without opposing the original court order. 1972[see joual]. 1976R. Baxandall in Mitchell & Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women viii. 265 Women are not encouraged to become leaders in unions. Tokenism is a standard practice. 1980Jewish Chron. 12 Sept. 27/3 Philip Rosenthal..waffled on about ‘tokenism’ in his factory, where two workers sit on the board, as if real democracy had been achieved.
Hence tokeˈnistic a., of the nature of tokenism.
1976in 6,000 Words. 1977M. Edelman Political Lang. vii. 125 Disorder..invites a response that is only tokenistic or symbolic when the protest is narrow in scope and expressed through conventional tactics. 1983Daily Tel. 14 Sept. 32/5 That was just a tokenistic load of knackers about gay rights.
Add: ˈtokenist a. = tokenistic a.
1975Daily Tel. 19 Nov. 14/3 We cannot all be ‘career’ discrimination experts, of course. But..we can all make sure that the subject of discrimination—whether racist, sexist, heightist, weightist, ageist, brainist, beautyist or tokenist—is never absent from our waking thoughts. 1985Community Librarian Aug. 13 Council felt that co-opting Black library workers/representatives on to divisional committees would be a tokenist gesture. |