A state comparable to racism, where one believes that one's culture or cultural facet is the best culture/facet.
(the pronunciation is debatable)
(the pronunciation is debatable)
I think you shouldn't be so whitewashed.
by Ruckus March 20, 2005
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Occurs at large family functions, when the normal-sized table does not adequately accomodate all diners. A small table is placed to the side, perhaps in another room entirely, and no one passes the food to that table, resulting in the starvation of diners seated at there.
Occurs at large family functions, when the normal-sized table does not adequately accomodate all diners. A small table is placed to the side, perhaps in another room entirely, and no one passes the food to that table, resulting in the starvation of diners seated at there.
Ex:
dad: How many of us are coming today?
grandma: Almost everyone, I had to set up the Ethiopia Table.
dad: How many of us are coming today?
grandma: Almost everyone, I had to set up the Ethiopia Table.
by lindseymg February 2, 2010
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A noun. Ethor is a name that you call the best person you know. This person is always fitter, smarter, funnier, and better than you at everything he does.
Kayra: " Whats up Ethor?"
Ethan: "Why did you call me Ethor?"
Kayra: "Because your better than me at everything!"
Ethan: "Everyone is."
Kayra: "So true!!!"
Ethan: "Why did you call me Ethor?"
Kayra: "Because your better than me at everything!"
Ethan: "Everyone is."
Kayra: "So true!!!"
by I Post The Truth! May 15, 2016
Get the Ethor mug.A malady affecting fanatics of the Nebraska Cornhuskers causing a deliriously overwhelming state of self worth while clouding the brain into thinking a person with corn on his head looks cool rather than foolish.
First coined by Gregg P., an emailer to the brilliant LA Times, Page 2 sports columnist TJ Simers on 8/16/2007
First coined by Gregg P., an emailer to the brilliant LA Times, Page 2 sports columnist TJ Simers on 8/16/2007
The original quote as it appeared:
"Wearing the corn-cob hat over time creates a condition now known as 'ethanol-head' whereby the resultant fumes coagulate at the pineal gland resulting in a victim's desire to live in delusional seclusion with visions of pigskin grandeur -- to the detriment of their offspring, who's scarred DNA will forever pass down this mutant red gene......"
"Wearing the corn-cob hat over time creates a condition now known as 'ethanol-head' whereby the resultant fumes coagulate at the pineal gland resulting in a victim's desire to live in delusional seclusion with visions of pigskin grandeur -- to the detriment of their offspring, who's scarred DNA will forever pass down this mutant red gene......"
by Gregg P October 23, 2007
Get the ethanol-head mug.1. When a person's nationality, ethnicity or accent acts as a filter and obstructs the traits of said person's real personality and attributes
2. When someone with a different accent or nationality is seen as exotic to another person, in turn filtering out other personal qualities, or lack thereof.
3. See International Filter
2. When someone with a different accent or nationality is seen as exotic to another person, in turn filtering out other personal qualities, or lack thereof.
3. See International Filter
A semi-ugly annoying British guy who always has a runny nose and wears high pants getting together with a hot, gorgeous Australian girl.
Sam: "I can't believe I didn't notice what a boring, uninteresting silly buns Mike is"
Peter: "well, how could you have known, what with the ethnic filter?"
Sam: "I can't believe I didn't notice what a boring, uninteresting silly buns Mike is"
Peter: "well, how could you have known, what with the ethnic filter?"
by Daphne750 April 1, 2010
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Get the fallopian ethiopian mug.The practice of fetishizing other, usually non-Western cultures for purposes of conscious or unconscious valorization of one's own worldliness and/or openness to cultural difference. May include the open display of jewelry, clothing and other cultural symbols completely incongruous with one's own identity.
Ethnopornography is usually practiced by white, middle-class, highly educated liberals who claim attraction to the values, beliefs and practices of those whose symbols they adopt because they are somehow more authentic, spiritually complex, and/or true to human nature than their own.
A contemporary form of post-colonial oppression.
Ethnopornography is usually practiced by white, middle-class, highly educated liberals who claim attraction to the values, beliefs and practices of those whose symbols they adopt because they are somehow more authentic, spiritually complex, and/or true to human nature than their own.
A contemporary form of post-colonial oppression.
"Man, Chris wearing that loincloth during his anthropology presentation on the Amazon tribe was completely ethnopornographic."
"That Discovery documentary on African stone age tribes was just ethnopornography."
"That Discovery documentary on African stone age tribes was just ethnopornography."
by deepblue1975 February 5, 2010
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