racial prejudice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofracialandprejudice
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racial
adjective
uk/ˈreɪ.ʃəl/us/ˈreɪ.ʃəl/
based on someone's perceived race, especially in a way that is unfair or harmful; or based on policies, behaviours, rules, etc. that result in unfair or harmful treatment of people because of their ...
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prejudice
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈpredʒ.ə.dɪs/us/ˈpredʒ.ə.dɪs/
an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought ...
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(Definition ofracialandprejudicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Can one wholly removeracialprejudicefrom the equation?
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It was a period that struggled against the deadness of bureaucracy, vested interest,racialprejudiceand authoritarianism.
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The narrative voice numbers itself among the guilty, who mouth an all too familiar rhetoric ofracialprejudice.
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Policies that preventracialprejudicefrom altering electoral outcomes help ensure that no one's political interests are discounted for reasons of race.
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Her struggle against poverty andracialprejudiceis the central theme of the book.
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The authors are clearly underscoring theracialprejudicethat frequently accompanies linguistic prejudice.
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My view is that the act's principle of equal electoral opportunity should be understood as prohibiting voting systems and arrangements that allowracialprejudiceto consistently alter electoral outcomes.
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Among other things, brain imaging has been used to investigate altruism, love, empathy, lying and truth telling, personality traits, political leanings,racialprejudice, and moral reasoning.
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This, of course, includes the nourishment of a moral conscience that makesracialprejudiceutterly repugnant to human decency.
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We need all our communities to be able to realise their potential free from bigotry,racialprejudiceor downright ignorance.
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We have had all too much evidence of the terrible results of the unrestricted preaching of hatred andracialprejudice.
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In my view, the removal ofracialprejudiceis the most insistent need of the 20th century.
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We recogniseracialprejudiceas a dangerous sickness threatening the healthy development of the human race and racial discrimination as an unmitigated evil of society.
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