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Ethno Rah

A UK social clique. Wore dreadlocks at uni but then got rid of them for their job in Ethical Investment (the ambitious ones) / Yoga Therapy (the bums).
All went to public school. Bryanston / Bedales are main feeders.
Easily identified by their dream catcher earrings,suede Inuit boots, Goa suntan and self-aware serenity when they tell you their self-purifying Bhakti Yoga seminar they attended.
When they were in London's Cuckoo Club trying to pull Nat Rothschild the night before.
Their main trick is to present a veneer of muesli-wholesome, down-to-earth karma, when in fact they're a socially ambitious, manipulative and back-biting lot.
All LOVE psychadelic trance, and congregate at the UK's Glade festival every year, bringing an extra tent to house their assorted outfits for the weekend.
Person 1 - India is having her leaving party before she goes to Goa in Shoreditch House (exclusive London member's club)


Person 2 - What an Ethno Rah
by lyrical chimp April 4, 2009
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The refusal to acknowledge the professional acumen of an ethnicity other than one's own, based on a stereotype and position that one's racial/ethnic background is superior.
Ex 1: The intellectual ethno-dismissiveness (IED Complex)of voters who discredit the validity of President Barack Obama's abilities in office, fueled the Tea-Party movement.

Ex 2: A minority expert in his or her field is questioned or double-checked on findings. Meanwhile, the response of someone who fits the challenger's idea of "the expert" may have little or no experience, but is respected and accepted with few questions.
by C.C. Network October 21, 2010
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Ethnopornography

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.
"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."
by deepblue1975 February 5, 2010
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ethno

Coloquial slang for:

1. A person of foreign descent.
2. Any paki/asian/indian/arab/asylym seeking bastard(s) that you'd rather just fucked off back to wherever they came from.


Notes: This does not apply to africans, who are generally dudes and do not smell.
'That fucking ethno just ran my dog over with his brand new bmw!'.

'man, I fucking hate ethnos'.
by Jack Black January 27, 2004
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ethno

Typical cuss to decribe any thieving/raping/racist/antagonistic/aids ridden bastard that undertakes their daily life in a manner which does not befit the customs and cu,ture of their current country of residence.
Social commentary: "Oh man, ethnos everywhere giving shit and beating up white people...wish they would fuck off back to where they came rom to die of aids ratther than increasing the burdon on my health service..."
by -=[OwNeR]=- April 30, 2005
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ethnonian

A person of cloaked, mysterious, vague or downright odd ethnic origin, culture, heritage or background, caused intentionally or otherwise.
Those neighbors, for example, with chickens and sheep in the background, children running around naked, women dressed in tableclothes and men wearing shiny suits, silk shirts unbuttoned to their navels and wearing enormous gold jewelry.
by Heinie Munoosch September 10, 2005
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ethnoemo

to be ethnically emotional. expressing extreme emotions associated with ones ethnic background.
Dude, she went all ethnoemo on me when I told her I had slept with someone else.
by cepheid13 July 17, 2010
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