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nonwhite
[ non-wahyt, -hwahyt ]
adjective
- of or relating to a person or people who are not members of the sociocultural classification marked by slight pigmentation of the skin and associated with European descent:
Both immigration and births contributed to nonwhite population growth in the most recent census.
noun
- a person who is not a member of the sociocultural classification marked by slight pigmentation of the skin and associated with European descent; a person of color.
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Compare this country with mostly dark-skinned Brazil, which has had not a single nonwhite Miss Brazil.
Any nonwhite person in America can probably testify to this from more local experience.
Shockingly, there is one nonwhite person in the cast, Salwa, or as MTV has dubbed her, “Bengali in boots.”
Swell move by the party allegedly trying to reach out now to nonwhite voters eh?
Nonwhite registered voters are somewhat less likely than whites to have driver's licenses.
Technically the Steward's Branch was open to all, but in practice it remained strictly nonwhite.
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