| 单词 | honorary white |
| 释义 | > as lemmashonorary white honorary white n. and adj. (also with capital initials) South African (now historical) (a) n. a person not registered as white under apartheid laws, but who is accorded the rights and privileges normally reserved for white people under such laws; (b) adj. designating or relating to such a person. ΚΠ 1962 Pacific Stars & Stripes 6 Mar. 9/1 Why are a handful of resident or visiting Japanese considered ‘honorary whites’ in racially segregated South Africa? 1965 D. Marais Ag, Sis Man! (caption) Greetings. I am Honorary White man. Old South African tradition. 1973 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 9 Dec. 5 They are impertinently classified as honorary White. 1992 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 11 Mar. 4 Chinese South Africans were not allowed to vote, even though they had been given honorary white status under a number of recently-scrapped apartheid laws. 2004 J. Gemmell Politics S. Afr. Cricket xi. 166 The West Indians, classified as ‘honorary whites’, witnessed the harsh reality of racial authority. < as lemmas |
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