| 词组 | native |
| 释义 | native Two British sources, Longman 1984 and Sellers 1975, note that native for a nonwhite, non-European person indigenous to some place is no longer considered polite. The offensiveness of the word, or the diffidence about it, seems to be a reaction to colonialism and its attitudes: • Plomer's voyagings put him in touch with people— "natives" as they were then called —Stephen Spender, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 27 June 1976 • The evil of colonialism is not oppression but contempt. Eminent Victorians despised their own lower classes and certainly the Irish... as much as they did any other people they called natives —Eugene Weber, N Y. Times Book Rev., 16 June 1985 And the word is certainly charged with racial overtones in its use with respect to South Africa. In North America we find native used nonpejora-tively, especially in Alaska and western Canada, in the sense "Native American." In this use it is frequently capitalized. • ... education seminars on Native cultures —Discover Alaska, Winter 1986 |
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