SLANT-EYED Definition & Meaning | 亚洲网紅露点

slant-eyed

[ slant-ahyd, slahnt- ]

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adjective

having eyes with epicanthic folds.
having eyes that appear to slant.
Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. being from East Asia, especially a Chinese or Japanese person.

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Sensitive Note

Slant, slant-eye, slant-eyed, and slope are highly offensive slurs that derive from a description of Asian eyes that appear to slant because of epicanthic folds. The adjective slant-eyed was first used in the 1860s. The noun slant-eye dates from the 1920s, and was shortened to slant at the beginning of World War II. The term slope first appeared in the late 1940s. These slurs were all used during the Vietnam War to refer to the Vietnamese.

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of slant-eyed¹

First recorded in 1860鈥�65

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A Sacramento school district employee has come under fire after video during a Zoom class showed her making a slant-eyed gesture that is disparaging to Asians.

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As Dimitra Fimi, author of Tolkien, Race and Cultural History, writes on her blog, the forces of 鈥済ood鈥� in Middle-earth are fair-skinned, while forces of 鈥渆vil鈥� are dark; Orcs are 鈥渟lant-eyed, swarthy and sallow-skinned鈥�; the 鈥渉eroes鈥� are all white-skinned.

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Sergio Busato was photographed smiling and making a slant-eyed gesture with his fingers after Russia beat the Koreans in a decisive qualification match for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Kaliningrad, Russia, on Aug. 4.

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