I called out someone's comments as racist when someone decided to correct me and say that the term was incorrect. According to this person, the word racism only seems to apply when referring to another race (e.g. Sub-Saharan African, White European, East-Asian, South-Asian, Native American, etc....

What do you call a person who is regionally biased and has an unreasonable hatred/dislike for people from other regions of the country/world? Something like a racist, but the point of discrimination here is the geographical region and not race.

Maniacal belief that "your" race, gender, culture, religion, language, country, group, beliefs are better than everyone else's. Which term would be more suitable: "jingoism" or "ethnocentrism"? Can they be used interchangeably?

There is a lot of sensitivity regarding race in the United States. In my view, the topology of this sociological landscape is characterized by one factor--but I can't think of the word for it. There is a certain "sensitivity" to race that some have that others don't, especially in politics and s...

Two verbs: one strong, the other weak The answer is fairly complicated at the detail level, but the short story is that there were two different verbs, one strong (all this the alpha version) and the other weak (call this the beta version). These two verbs converged, but neither form won out ov...