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- Abandonment: 1.
To withdraw one's support or help from, especially in spite of
duty, allegiance, or responsibility; desert. 2. To give up by
leaving or ceasing to operate or inhabit, especially as a result
of danger or other impending threat. 3. To surrender one's claim
to, right to, or interest in; give up entirely. 4. To cease trying
to continue; desist from. 5. To yield (oneself) completely, as
to emotion. To deserted; forsake.
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- Aboriginal: Having existed in a land or region
from the beginning.
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- Aborigine: A member of the indigenous (these
indigenous peoples are now called "Black", english
word, by modern Europeans), original inhabitants, or earliest
known population of a land or region. Australia's indigenous
people. Note:
Considered by most
scientist today that modern Africans (Homo sapiens), crossed over to Australia from New Guinea over
an land bridge, some 60,000 or more years ago.
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- Adversarial: Relating to or characteristic
of an adversary; involving antagonistic elements. 1. An opponent;
an enemy.
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- Afar: Afar is the name that people of
the Northeast use themselves. In the Amhara language they are
called Adal; Arabs call them Danakil (Dankali); Oromo refer to
them as Adali and neighboring Somali groups use the term Odali.
In Tigrayan they are the Teltal. Afar is a more or less homogenous
ethnic group. They are Muslims and have always 'enjoyed' a wild
reputation, through stories by Arab and European imperialist,
travelers and traders. There are many Afar groups, but all consider
themselves Afars. All groups speak the Afar language known as
Afar-Af, except for the Irob group of the North, who speak Saho.
Other groups are the Ankala, the Adhali and the Able (near Rarahita),
the Uluhto, Ayrolasso, and Asabbakari, the Modhito (near Awsa),
the Dammohoyta, and the Seka noblemen.
Afar live in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti. Djibouti was formerly
named Afar and Issaland. Their land is the triangle north of
Awash (Awash being the southern angle). They are shepherds, who
also trade skins, butter and livestock with surrounding nations.
Their cattle consist of camels, cows, sheep and goats. Alternative
lifestyles have developed: there is Afar fishermen and farmers,
and quite a lot of Afar in the salt mines. There is one remarkable
division in the Afar nation: each Afar person is considered to
be a red Afar or a white Afar. The reds are called the Asahyammara,
the whites are the Adohyammara. The colors have nothing to do
with skin color. The Afar is indigenous to Africa, so all are
dark skinned people. One theory mentions Afar living on white
sand (coast) and on red sand (desert), or traditions to wear
white or red clothing.
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- Africa: Indigenous ancient
Africa was a "multi-ethnic" land (these multi-ethnic
indigenous peoples are now called "Black", english
word, by modern Europeans). But now has many admixtures or hybridizations
of Asian and Indo-European descent (some parts of modern Africa).
There are still many indigenous African prototypes living throughout
the continent and outside of the continent.
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- Note 1:
The land boundaries of present day Africa were determined by
European elites, at the Berlin Conference of 1884 (CE). Note 2: 90.4
percent of Africa was under European or American colonial control.
This was a political-economic phenomenon that began in the 1500s
whereby various European nations, conquered, and exploited large
areas of the world. The last century began with almost all countries
of the world enslaved under European colonial control whose effects
are still felt in the shape of neo colonialism and the exploitative
power of the few nations of the world. Slavery became a science
in the colonial era in which tens of millions of people were
killed or enslaved because of their race and color. Note 3: Most
of Africa today is covered by desert or grassland; forest covers
less than 10 percent of the land. Much of the continent is dominated
by vast areas of plains that have uniform vegetation and landscape.
Today (2002) the percentage of Africa that is wilderness is 28
percent. Today (2002) in North America, the land that is wilderness
equal 38 percent. Note
4: There are no
jungles in Africa. (Special Note: The name "Africa" probably
comes from the Afar people, who lived (and live), at the southern
end of the Red Sea. - Martin Bernal)
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- African: The worlds oldest inhabitants.
Creators of the world's first civilizations. The word "indigenous"
means "the original" or "the first".
It describe "the original"
peoples who live in Africa, the old inhabitants (called "Black", english word, by modern Europeans), (not newcomers, or invaders).
Also including the prototypical peoples of the African ancient
and modern diaspora (African ancestry or descent). Originally
inhabiting areas of tropical rain forestation, also desert dwellings.
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- African Consciousness: Implies that you are fully aware
of who and what you are and your situation as it relates to the
world thus one would conclude that this awareness would yield
actions that are complementary to your situation i.e. improving
a bad situation or maintaining a good one. One who subscribes
and practices thoughts and deeds, which promotes unity among
people of African descent.
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- African Ethnicity:
1a. Of or relating
to groups of indigenous African people sharing a common and distinctive
prototypes, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
b. Being a member of a particular ethnic group. 2. A member of
a particular indigenous African ethnic group, especially one
who maintains the language or customs of the group. Note: One final caution that is germane
to the study of Africa's peoples is that the word "tribe"
is an inaccurate and inappropriate way to describe African societies.
The term carries negative connotations in the Western mind, "primitive"
peoples is another false interpretation of indigenous African
people. These terms are not a designation that Westerners would
use to describe most distinct ethnic groups in other societies.
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- African languages: Consisting of four language families:
Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Khoisan, and Niger-Congo. A language
family is defined as a group of related languages that derive
from a common origin, and subdivided into branches composed of
more closely related languages.
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- Bantu: Bantu is a language group that belongs to the
Niger-Congo group. Bantu languages are spoken in South Cameroon,
in Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique,
Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Other important
Bantu languages include Lingala, Luganda, Kikongo, and Chichewa
in Central and Eastern Africa, and Shona, Sindebele, Setswana,
Sesotho, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sepedi, and Swazi in Southern Africa.
Some are usually known in English without the class prefix (Swahili
for Kiswahili, Zulu for isiZulu, etc.), and some others vary
(Setswana or Tswana, Sindebele or Ndebele, etc.). But the bare
form typically does not occur in the language: in the country
of Botswana the people are the Batswana, one person is a Motswana,
and the language is Setswana.
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- Niger-Congo languages: The Niger-Congo languages are
probably the largest group of the world in terms of different
languages. Some of the African Languages with the largest number
of speakers belong to it. Most linguists link the thirty or so
Kordofanian languages to the Niger-Congo family, forming a Niger-Kordofanian
language family. Several Kordofanian languages are spoken in
Sudan. They are grouped together with the Niger-Congo languages.
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- Some major languages or
subgroups belonging to Niger-Congo: Westatlantic languages group
(this includes Wolof spoken in Senegal and Fula a language spoken
across the Sahel). Mandinka a language group spoken in West Africa
(This includes Bambara, the language spoken in Mali). Kwa languages
(this includes Akan spoken in Ghana). Yoruba and Igbo spoken
in Nigeria. Gur languages spoken among others in Côte d'Ivoire,
Togo, Burkina Faso and Mali. Kru languages. Adamawa-Ubangi languages
(This includes Sango spoken in the Central African Republic).
A very large subgroup are the Bantu languages which include Swahili
or Swahili language. Note 1: Wolof
and the language spoken in ancient Kemet (Egypt) were closely
related. (Special
Note: Proven in Professor Ivan Van Sertima's book, Egypt Revisited).
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- Note 2: Ancient
African languages represented a stage of linguistic development
which predated the division of the languages of western Asia
and Africa into semitic and hamitic branches. These ancient African
or Afro-asiatic languages actually separated around 12,000 B.C.E.,
the ancient African languages was the great parent language of
these two language groups or branches, ("mother tongue")
from which they all descended.
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- Note 3: According to recent estimates, the number of actively
spoken languages in the world today is around 6,000. More than
1,400 of those languages belong to the Niger-Congo family from
Africa, and about 1,200 are in the Austronesian family from Madagascar,
Indonesia, Australia, the Pacific Islands, and New Zealand.
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- Africanist: Admirer and specialist in African
affairs, cultures, or languages.
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- Africology: It embodies academically, Nubiologist, Kemetology
which is Egyptology, Classics, also including the study of the
prototypical peoples of the African ancient and modern diaspora
(inside the continent and outside of the continent), (African
ancestry or descent) and all other forms of indigenous African
Studies.
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- Ankh: An ancient African symbol representing
life. It symbolizes the unification of the feminine and masculine
forces in the universe and the creation of new life. The oval
depicts the womb, the vertical shaft depicts the phallus and
the horizontal bar expresses the coming into existence of a new
life. Note
1: The Ankh is
generally the most recognizable symbol of the ancient Africans
in northeast Africa. Note 2:
The Ankh was generally used or expressed in ancient Kemetic art,
giving honor to people or things that provided or has "life
giving powers," such as women, gods and goddess, kings,
queens, the sun, earth (dark soil) and water. Note 3: It was later adapted by Coptic
Christians as their cross.
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- Apathy: 1. Lack of interest or concern,
especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal;
indifference. 2. Lack of emotion or feeling; impassiveness.
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- Arab: A member of a group of people inhabiting
Arabia, in western Asia, whose language and Islamic religion
spread widely throughout western Asia and northern Africa from
the seventh century. The term “Arab” does not have
the same meaning as does “Italian” or “Japanese.”
Rather, it is more like the term “American," it refers
to a roughly common language, geographic territory, and philosophy
without a precise ethnic definition. Perhaps unlike many other
labels we use to describe each other, the term “Arab”
is one that one applies to one's self rather that a label that
is given by others.
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- Artificial: 1.a. Made by human beings; produced
rather than natural. b. Brought about or caused by sociopolitical
or other human-generated forces or influences. 2. Made in imitation
of something natural; simulated. 3. Not genuine or natural.
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- Australasia: The islands of the southern Pacific Ocean, including
Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea.
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- Autarkic: 1. A policy of national self-sufficiency and nonreliance
on imports or economic aid. 2. A self-sufficient region or country.
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- Barbarian: The word barbarian comes from the Greek word "bar-bar,"
for someone who stutters, is unintelligible, or does not speak
Greek. The Greeks, like most ancient peoples, did not attribute
much meaning to physical appearance. In ancient Greece, language
was the difference that mattered, because it indicated who was
not Greek. Some historians believe that the first to be labeled
barbarian were the Scythians of circa 500 B.C., who lived northeast
of the Black Sea and were very fair skinned. Ideas of so-called
race did not exist during antiquity.
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- Barbaric: 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic
of barbarians. 2. Marked by crudeness or lack of restraint in
taste, style, or manner.
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- Base: 1. Having or showing a contemptible,
mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency. 2. Devoid of
high values or ethics.
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- BCE: Before Common Era, it is the term used in the scientific
community.
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- Berlin Conference: The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 sanctioned
the invasion and partitioning of the African continent among
several European powers. This conference established the boundaries
of African countries as we know them today.
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- Betrayal: 1.a. To give aid or information
to an enemy of; commit treason against. 1.b. To deliver into
the hands of an enemy in violation of a trust or allegiance.
2. To be false or disloyal to. 3. To divulge in a breach of confidence.
4. To make known unintentionally. 5. To reveal against one's
desire or will. 6. To lead astray; deceive.
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- Black: So-called black skin = bad, wrong,
evil, wicked, low, cheerless and depressing; gloomy. Note 1: The achromatic color value of
minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that
absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme
of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. 1. Soiled,
as from soot; dirty. 2. Evil; wicked. 3. Cheerless and depressing;
gloomy: black thoughts. 4. Being or characterized by morbid or
grimly satiric humor: a black comedy. 5. Marked by anger or sullenness:
gave me a black look. 6. Attended with disaster; calamitous:
a black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday. 7. Deserving
of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor: “Man...
has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the
oceanic islands” (Rachel Carson). 8. Appearing to emanate
from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly
of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions.
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- Usage Note: The word "black" is
a english word and is in the Indo-European language family. In
Old English it was blaec, closely related to its equivalents
in Old High German (blah, blach) and Old Norse (blakkr). The
word has alway been used too demonize indigenous people. Europeans
and European Americans used the word too demonize brown skinned
people globally. And to convince themselves and the world that
these indigenous people are the opposite of Europeans. Who also
decided to call themselves "white." Note 2: The term "black" directed towards
indigenous people was and still is meant to create an adversarial
role as opposite to the term "white." The Oxford English Dictionary contains
evidence of the use of the word black with reference to African
and Aboriginal peoples, some say as early as 1400 CE in Europe,
and certainly the word has been in wide use in so-called racial
and ethnic contexts ever since. Do to very strong teachings,
propaganda and demonization by Europeans, people with dark brown
skin are now called black globally. It wasn't until the late
1960s that black (or Black) gained its present status as a ethnonym
with strong connotations of ethnic pride, replacing the then-current
term Negro among people of African descent. Note 3: Also see the word Negro. Reflecting the profound
changes taking place in the African American communities during
the tumultuous years of the civil rights and social empowerment
movements. The recent success of the term African American offers
an interesting contrast in this regard. Though by no means a
modern coinage, African American achieved sudden prominence at
the end of the 1980s when several people, including Rev. Jesse
Jackson, championed it as an alternative ethnonym for Americans
of African descent. The appeal of this term is obvious, alluding
as it does not to imaginary skin color but to an ethnicity constructed
of geography, history, and culture, and it won rapid acceptance
from people of African descent globally, alongside similar forms
such as Asian American.
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- Canaanite: (called
Phoenicians later in history by the Greeks) Before
the Hebrews first migrated there around 1800 B.C., the land of
Canaan was occupied by Canaanites. The people had their traditional
religious customs. "Between 3000 and 1100 B.C., Canaanite
civilization covered what is today Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon
and much of Syria and Jordan. Special Note: Those
who remained in the Jerusalem hills after the Romans expelled
the Jews [in the second century A.D.] were a potpourri: farmers
and vineyard growers, pagans and converts to Christianity, descendants
of the Arabs, Persians, Samaritans, Greeks and old Canaanite
tribes. - Marcia Kunstel and Joseph Albright, "Their
Promised Land."
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- The present-day Palestinians'
ancestral heritage: (The Romans
created the term Palestine) But all these [different peoples
who had come to Canaan] were additions, sprigs grafted onto the
parent tree...And that parent tree was Canaanite...[The Arab
invaders of the 7th century A.D.] made Moslem converts of the
natives, settled down as residents, and intermarried with them,
with the result that all are now so completely Arabized that
we cannot tell where the Canaanites leave off and the Arabs begin.
- Illene Beatty, "Arab and Jew in the Land of Canaan."
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- Note 1: In modern times the British once
invaded and occupied the areas that
is now known as Palestine and Israel. With the British Mandate
and the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain recognized
Jewish demand for a homeland, the Jewish population increased
from 10% in 1918 to 30% in 1936. In 1937 it was decided to partition
Palestine with Jewish and Arab states, this idea was dropped
as WWII loomed. After WWII, European Jewish immigration grew
to such an extent that Britain, trying to avert confrontation
between Arab and Jew slowed the process resulting in Jewish terrorism
against British troops. The Palestine problem was submitted to
the UN in 1947 who passed the resolution of partition. Britain
ended the mandate on 14th May 1948 when the independent state
of Israel in Palestine was established. In spite of the UN plan
of 1947 Palestine ceased to exist as a political entity after
the Arab Israeli war of 1948. Problems in the area continue.
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- Category: 1. A specifically defined division
in a system of classification; a class. 2. A general class of
ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations
within a conceptual scheme.
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- Caucasian or Caucasoid: Of or relating to the Caucasian
racial division. No longer in scientific use. A member of the
Caucasian racial division. Is no longer in scientific use.
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- Note 1: The belief that Caucasoids are
indigenous to other parts of the world has been proven to be
a fantasy or at best pseudoscientific. After the invasion of
Europeans in modern times, this believe start with the idea that
only great achievement can only be possible if the people and
or history were "white" in spirit. This obsessive belief
system gave rise to a newer concept that in some way the people
and or history had to be connected the a great "white"
or Caucasian so-called race of people. Unfortunately because
of social conditioning, this belief is still placed in the educational
systems in Europe and the United States. This concept is no longer
in by scientific use in the serious study of Africa.
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- CE: Common Era, it is the term used in the scientific
community.
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- Character: 1. The combination of qualities
or features that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from
another. 2. A distinguishing feature or attribute, as of an individual,
a group, or a category. 4. Moral or ethical strength. 5. A description
of a person's attributes, traits, or abilities. 6. Public estimation
of someone; reputation.
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- Cheat: 1. To deceive by trickery; swindle.
2. To deprive by trickery; defraud: cheated them of their land.
3. To mislead; fool: illusions that cheat the eye. 4. To act
dishonestly; practice fraud. 5. To violate rules deliberately.
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- Civil Rights: 1. The rights belonging to an
individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental
freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments
to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress,
including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the
laws, and freedom from discrimination. 2. Of or relating to such
rights or privileges: civil rights legislation. 3. Of or relating
to a political movement, especially during the 1950's and 1960's,
devoted to securing equal opportunity and treatment for members
of minority groups.
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- Civil Rights Act: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made
racial discrimination in public places illegal. The other programs
are all examples of racial preferences for people of European
descent. Over a 40-year period, the Homestead Act gave away,
for free, 270 million acres of what had been American Indian
Territory, almost all of it to white people. The Naturalization
Act allowed only "free white persons" to adopt citizenship,
thus opening our doors to European immigrants, but barring Asian
Americans and other groups. Racial barriers to citizenship were
not removed until 1952. The Federal Housing Administration made
it possible for millions of average European Americans, but not
others to own a home for the first time. (see word segregation
below). And the Social Security Act specifically exempted two
occupations from coverage: farm-workers and domestics, both largely
non-white.
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- Cognizance: 1. Conscious knowledge or recognition;
awareness. 2. The range of what one can know or understand. 3.
Observance; notice.
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- Commercialization:
1. To apply methods
of business to for profit. 2.a. To do, exploit, or make chiefly
for financial gain. b. To sacrifice the quality for profit.
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- Complacency: 1. A feeling of contentment or
self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness
of danger or trouble. 2. An instance of contented self-satisfaction.
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- Complacent: 1. Contented to a fault; self-satisfied
and unconcerned. 2. Eager to please; complaisant.
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- Complaisant: Exhibiting a desire or willingness
to please; cheerfully obliging.
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- Concentrate: 1.a. To direct or draw toward a
common center; focus. 1.b. To bring into one main body. 2. To
converge toward or meet in a common center. 2.b. To increase
by degree; gather. 3. To direct one's thoughts or attention.
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- Concept: 1. A general idea derived or inferred
from specific instances or occurrences. 2. Something formed in
the mind; a thought or notion.
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- Conceptualization:
1. To form a concept
or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way.
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- Conformist: 1. A person who uncritically or
habitually conforms to the customs, rules, or styles of a group.
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- Conquest: 1. The act or process of conquering.
2. Something, such as territory, acquired by conquering. 3. One
that has been captivated or overcome.
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- Conscience: 1.a. The awareness of a moral
or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to
prefer right over wrong. Let your conscience be your guide.
1.b. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement.
1.c. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct. 2. The part
of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature
of one's actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations
to the ego for consideration. 3. Obsolete. Consciousness.
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- Conscious: 1.a. Having an awareness of one's
environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts.
1b. Mentally perceptive or alert; awake. 2. Capable of thought,
will, or perception. 3. Subjectively known or felt. 4. Intentionally
conceived or done; deliberate. 5. Inwardly attentive or sensible;
mindful. 6. Especially aware of or preoccupied with.
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- Corrupt: 1. Marked by immorality and perversion;
depraved. 2. Venal; dishonest. 3. Containing errors or alterations,
as a text: a corrupt translation. 4. To destroy or subvert the
honesty or integrity of. 2. To ruin morally; pervert. 3. To taint;
contaminate. 4. To cause to become rotten; spoil.
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- Critical Thinking: The freedom to ask questions and the tools to
reason, liberating one's mind from unthinking prejudice, and
promoting an appreciation for the non-imperialist mental state
or beliefs. Characterized by careful, exact evaluation and judgment.
Being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency.
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- Dalit: What Is "Dalit" and "Dalitism?"
Now its meaning: The root word of this word
Dalit is Dal. The adjective of dal is Dalit. We find this word
dal on page 471 of the prestigious Oxford Sanskrit English Dictionary,
new edition, 1964, edited by the world - famous Sanskrit scholar,
Sir Monier Williams. The famous word, `Daridra',which is popular
in many Indian languages, is derived from `Dalit'. "Dalit"
is found in many Indian languages and even a Dravidian language.
The meaning given to `Dalit' in the dictionary is: burst, split,
scattered, dispersed, broken, torn as under, destroyed, crushed.
All these English words sum up the exact position of the Indian
Untouchables and also tribes. We are crushed and cramped and
made mincemeat by the Hindu religion. That is why we are Dalits.
Be proud to be a Dalit, the original inhabitants of this ancient
land. Let us walk with our head high. Let us be proud of our
Dalit culture. Black is beautiful.
- - by V.T. Rajshekar, one
of India's foremost human rights activists and a spokesperson
for the Indian Dalits.
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- Note: Also see the word untouchable below.
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- Deconstruction: A philosophical movement and theory
of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions
about certainty, identity, and truth, asserts that words can
only refer to other words, and attempts to demonstrate how statements
about any text subvert their own meanings.
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- Defense mechanism:
A way of escaping
stressful thoughts or situations, by mentally forming new thoughts
detached from reality.
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- Dehumanize: 1. To deprive of human qualities
such as individuality, compassion, or civility.
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- Deliberate: 1. Done with or marked by full
consciousness of the nature and effects; intentional: mistook
the oversight for a deliberate insult. 2. Arising from or marked
by careful consideration. 3. Unhurried in action, movement, or
manner, as if trying to avoid error. 4. To think carefully and
often slowly, as about a choice to be made. 5. To consult with
another or others in a process of reaching a decision. Note 1: To consider a matter carefully
and often slowly, as by weighing alternatives. Note 2: To think attentively and usually
slowly, as about a choice or decision to be made.
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- Demonize: 1. To represent as evil or diabolic.
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- Denial: An unconscious defense mechanism used to reduce
anxiety by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts,
feeling or facts that are consciously intolerable.
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- Denigrate: 1. To attack the character or reputation of; speak
ill of; defame. 2. To disparage; belittle.
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- Dignity: 1. The quality or state of being worthy of esteem
or respect. 2. Inherent nobility and worth. 3.a. Poise and self-respect.
b. Stateliness and formality in manner and appearance. 4. The
respect and honor associated with an important position.
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- Diminutive: 1. Extremely small in size; tiny.
Note:
Diminutive Africoid
(a so-called "Pygmy").
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- Discouragement: 1.a. The act of discouraging.
b. The condition of being discouraged. Synonyms with despair.
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- Distortion: 1. A statement that twists fact;
a misrepresentation. 2a.
The act or an instance of distorting. b. The condition of being
distorted.
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- Disguise: 1. To modify the manner or appearance
of in order to prevent recognition. 2. To conceal or obscure
by dissemblance or false show; misrepresent. 3. To conceal one's
true identity. 4.a. Appearance that misrepresents the true character
of something. 4.b. A pretense or misrepresentation.
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- Distracted: 1. Having the attention diverted.
2. Suffering conflicting emotions; distraught.
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- Divine right: 1. The doctrine that monarchs
and or imperialists believe their have a right to ruled because
they were chosen by God to do so and are accountable only to
God. 2.a. Having the nature of or being a deity. b. Of, relating
to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity. c. Being
in the service or worship of a deity; sacred. 3. Superhuman;
godlike. 4.a. Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent. b. Extremely
pleasant; delightful. c. Heavenly; perfect. Note: See Manifest Destiny below.
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- Dominant: 1. Exercising the most influence
or control. 2. Most prominent, as in position; ascendant. Note 1: Dominant applies to what exercises
principal control or authority or is unmistakably ascendant.
Note 2:
Predominant is
often nearly identical with dominant but more often implies being
uppermost at a particular time or for the time being.
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- Egypt: Aegyptcus (See Kemet below)
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- Enlightenment: 1. Reaching an level of achievement resulting
in intellectual development. 2. The condition of having spiritual
or intellectual insight. 3. The act or process of imparting knowledge
and skill.
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- Emancipated:
1. To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint;
liberate. 2. To be released from the control of others.
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- Empiricism: 1. The view that experience, especially of the
senses, is the only source of knowledge. 2.a. Employment of empirical
methods, as in science. b. An empirical conclusion. 3. The practice
of medicine that disregards scientific theory and relies solely
on practical experience.
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- Erase: 1. To remove (something written,
for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping. 2. To remove all
traces of. 3. To remove or destroy as if by wiping out.
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- Essence: 1. The intrinsic or indispensable
properties that serve to characterize or identify something.
2. The most important ingredient; the crucial element. 3. The
inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things. 4.a.
An extract that has the fundamental properties of a substance
in concentrated form. b. Such an extract in a solution of alcohol.
c. A perfume or scent. 5. One that has or shows an abundance
of a quality as if highly concentrated: a neighbor who is the
essence of hospitality. 6. Something that exists, especially
a spiritual or incorporeal entity.
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- Ethnicity: Ethnic character, background,
or affiliation.
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- Evolve: 1.a. To develop or achieve gradually.
1.b. To work something out; devise. 2.a. Biology: To develop
a characteristic by evolutionary processes. 2.b. To develop or
arise through evolutionary processes. 3. To give off; emit. 4.
To undergo gradual change; develop.
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- Existentialism: A philosophy that emphasizes the
uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile
or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable,
and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences
of one's acts.
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- Exuberance: 1. Full of enthusiasm, full of
happy high spirits and vitality. 2. Abundant, growing in great
abundance or profusion 3. Lavish or elaborate, often to the point
of being excessive.
- F
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- Fabricate: 1. To concoct in order to deceive.
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- Factitious: 1. Produced artificially rather
than by a natural process. 2. Lacking authenticity, genuineness
or sham.
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- Faithful: 1. Adhering firmly and devotedly,
as to a person, a cause, or an idea; loyal. 2. Having or full
of faith. 3. Worthy of trust or belief; reliable. 4. Consistent
with truth or actuality.
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- Farce: 1. A highly improbable plot situations,
exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used
for sometimes humorous effect. 2. A ludicrous, empty show; a
mockery. 3. Unlikely and extravagant. 4. Often possible situations
disguised and mistaken as reality. 5. Verbal humour of varying
degrees of sophistication, which may include puns and sexual
innuendo. 6. Often involving an elaborate scene deliberate in
absurdity or nonsense.
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- Fascism: 1. A system of government marked
by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic
controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship,
and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
1.b. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating
such a system of government. 2. Oppressive, dictatorial control.
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- Note: Fascism is a radical totalitarian
political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism,
extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-anarchism, anti-communism
and anti-liberalism. The original fascist (fascismo) movement
ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito
Mussolini. In time, the generic term fascism came to cover a
class of authoritarian political ideologies, parties, and political
systems, most notably Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler but also
Hungary's Arrow Cross Party, Romania's Iron Guard, Spain's Falange
and the French political movements led by former socialists Marcel
Déat and Jacques Doriot and others. Many governments and
people around the world are of the opinion that the United States
of America has a fascist corporate control government and political
system designed to oppress others.
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- “Fascism
should more appropriately be called Corporatism
- because it is
a merger of state and corporate power”
- - Benito Mussolini
(Italian dictator, 1883-1945)
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- “Fascism
is a religious concept”
- - Benito Mussolini
(Italian dictator, 1883-1945)
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- “Fascism
is capitalism in decay”
- - Vladimir Lenin
quotes (Russian Founder of the Russian Communist Party,
- leader of the Russian
Revolution of 1917, 1870-1924)
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- “Fascism
is capitalism plus murder.”
- - Upton Sinclair
quotes (AKA: Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
- American Novelist
and polemicist, 1878-1968)
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- Fraud: 1. A deception deliberately practiced
in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain. 2. A piece of trickery;
a trick. 3.a. One that defrauds; a cheat. 3.b. One who assumes
a false pose; an impostor.
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- Free: 1. Not imprisoned or enslaved;
being at liberty. 2. Not controlled by obligation or the will
of another: 3.a. Having political independence. 3b. Governed
by consent and possessing or granting civil liberties. 3c. Not
subject to arbitrary interference by a government. 4.a. Not affected
or restricted by a given condition or circumstance: a healthy
animal, free of disease; free from need. b. Not subject to a
given condition; exempt: income that is free of all taxes. 5.
Not subject to external restraint: 6. Not literal or exact: a
free translation. 7. Costing nothing. 8. Not occupied or used.
9. Unobstructed; clear. 10. Unguarded in expression or manner;
open; frank. 11. Given, made, or done of one's own accord; voluntary
or spontaneous: a free act of the will; free choices. 12. Chemistry.
Physics. 12.a. Unconstrained; unconfined. 12.b. Not fixed in
position; capable of relatively unrestricted motion. 12.c. Unoccupied:
a free energy level. 13. Not bound, fastened, or attached.
- Note: To relieve of a burden, an obligation,
or a restraint: a people who were at last freed from fear. 3.
To remove obstructions or entanglements from, clean.
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- Freethinking: One
who has rejected indoctrination and dogma, especially in imperialistic and religious thinking, in favor of rational inquiry and speculation.
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- G
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- Genesis: 1. The coming into being of something;
the origin or beginning.
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- Greed: An excessive desire to acquire
or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with
respect to material wealth.
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- Griot: (pronounced gree-oh) was the honored
name bestowed on wise and knowledgeable storytellers entrusted
with the pivotal task of documenting the histories and genealogies
of their people.
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- Guinea: The word "Guinea" means
"woman" in the west African language called Sousou.
An island in the southwest Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
The western half is considered part of Indonesia, and the eastern
half forms the major portion of Papua New Guinea. Note: The Portuguese invaded and than
occupied the land in 1511, naming the island New Guinea. Named
after the Guinea coast of western Africa, because the indigenous
people on the island looked in appearance like the indigenous
people of Africa. Of course these "Africoid" and or
"Australoid" island people are from the ancient African
migration from Africa through western Asia into India and than
to Tasmania, Australia and other lands.
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- H
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- Hoax: 1. An act intended to deceive or
trick. 2. Something that has been established or accepted by
fraudulent means.
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- Homo sapiens: The modern species of human beings.
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- Humanism: 1. A system of thought that centers
on human beings and their values, capacities, and worth. 2. Concern
with the interests, needs, and welfare of human beings.
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- I
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Iconoclast: 1. Somebody challenging tradition, somebody who
challenges or overturns traditional beliefs, customs, and values.
2. Destroyer of religious images, somebody who destroys religious
images or opposes their use in worship. 3. Heretic in Greek Orthodox
Church, a member of an 8th-century movement in the Greek Orthodox
Church that tried to end the use of icons.
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- Identity: 1. What identifies somebody or
something: the name or essential character that identifies somebody
or something. 2. essential self: the set of characteristics that
somebody recognizes as belonging uniquely to himself or herself
and constituting his or her individual personality for life.
3. sameness: the fact or condition of being the same or exactly
alike. 4. mathematics equation true for all its variables: a
mathematical equation that remains valid whatever values are
taken by its variables.
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- Identity crisis: 1. A psychosocial state or condition of disorientation
and role confusion occurring especially in adolescents as a result
of conflicting pressures and expectations and often producing
acute anxiety. 2. An analogous state of confusion occurring in
a social structure, such as an institution or a corporation.
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- Image: 1. A reproduction of the form of
a person or an object, especially a sculptured likeness. 2. An
optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative
reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction
of an object formed by a lens or mirror. 3. One that closely
or exactly resembles another; a double. 4.a. The opinion or concept
of something that is held by the public. b. The character projected
to the public, as by a person or an institution, especially as
interpreted by the mass media and governments. 5. A personification
of something specified. 6. A mental picture of something not
real or present. 7.a. A vivid description or representation.
7.b. A figure of speech, especially a metaphor or simile. 7.c.
A concrete representation, as in art, literature, or music, that
is expressive or evocative of something else. 8. To copy data
in a file transferred to another medium. 9.a. To make or produce
a likeness of. 9.b. To mirror or reflect. 9.c. To symbolize or
typify. 9.d. To picture (something) mentally; imagine. 9.e. To
describe, especially so vividly as to evoke a mental picture
of. 10. (Computer Science) To translate (photographs or other
pictures) by computer into numbers that can be transmitted to
a remote location and then reconverted into pictures by another
computer. 11. To visualize (something), as by magnetic resonance
imaging.
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- Imaginary: Having existence only in the imagination;
unreal.
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- Imperialism: 1.
The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition
or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over
other nations. 2. The system, policies, or practices of such
a government.
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