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Paleface - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Wasp, Black, Boy, Coon, Gook

Paleface is a usually insulting term for white people used by some Native Americans. It fits into the general pattern of one ethnic or racial group describing another one by a single trait - e.g., the term "redskin" used by some whites to refer to Native Americans.


Paleface is a rapper from Finland.


In Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad, the term paleface is used by sentient robots to refer to humans.

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