ethnically challenged

adj

Etymology

An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.

Definitions

  1. Of a person, belonging to a marginalized ethnicity.

    • […] everybody knew, and agreed, that you didn't cut in line or urinate on sidewalks in public (a new cultural practice among the ethnically challenged) or just plain be rude and disagreeable.
    • “And I want to thank you for pointing that out at long last instead of referring to me as a little ethnically challenged boy in drag.”
    • Young Muslims are essentially seen as 'ethnically challenged' and this is put at the core of their experience of disadvantaged positions. Prejudice and discrimination present authentically serious difficulties […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ethnically challenged. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA