| 释义 |
pigmentocracy|pɪgmənˈtɒkrəsɪ|
[f. pigment + -ocracy.]
A ruling class made up of people of one skin-colour (usu. white); a country or state with such a ruling class.
1952Economist 6 Dec. 702/2 A natural white aristocracy, with aristocratic virtues as well as vices, was already becoming merely a pigmentocracy. 1956A. Sampson Drum xv. 210 In the ‘pigmentocracy’ of South Africa, skin colour was firmly linked with money and success. 1959New Statesman 19 Dec. 874/3 South Africa is a pigmentocracy, dedicated before God and the whole world to the proposition that ‘South Africa is the white man's country: it shall never be ruled by Kaffirs, Hottentots and Coolies.’ |