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non-White

noun

  1. a person not of the Caucasoid or White race
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Usage

This word may well cause offence. If you need to refer to people's race it may be better to specify it or else to use a phrase such as 'a person from a minority ethnic group'
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Example Sentences

“Non-white Christian groups, non-Christian groups and religiously unaffiliated voters have tended to vote Democrat.”

From BBC

According to the same Post analysis, “The correlation between a county’s non-White voting population and its shift toward Trump isn’t nearly as strong in suburban or rural areas.”

From Slate

Older, white conservatives were dying off, and non-white Americans were projected to be in the majority by 2044.

From BBC

Mike Madrid, an anti-Trump Republican strategist who specialises in Latino voting trends, told the BBC that the problem with “demography is destiny” was that it risked treating all non-white Americans as an “aggrieved racial minority”.

From BBC

In that same Harvard poll, Harris’s lead amongst white women under 30 was 13 points ahead of Trump, compared to a 55-point advantage amongst non-white women under 30.

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