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1. an individual who is not a White person, esp a Black person 2. (in South Africa) a person of racially mixed parentage or descent 3. designating or relating to a Coloured person or Coloured people Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Like the Irish in the 19th Century who fled the Great Hunger to meet the same sad sort of slogans that greeted the Beaker People - No Irish Need Apply on factory gates, just as No Coloureds No Dogs (no commas) appeared in lodging house windows when the first West Indians arrived. But you might have thought, what with Ireland's own history of economic emigration as well as discrimination where within living memory landladies put up notices saying: "No coloureds, no dogs, no Irish", that they could welcome others forced to search for a better life. With research also revealing that white South Africans still earn around 450% more than black South Africans 14 years after the end of apartheid, the government recognised that this action in reclassifying themselves is no different from the South African coloureds who sought to distance themselves from the black community in preference to the white community, and this takes us back many years to the same problems. |
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