<spanclass="subtitle">A modern dictionary about us. We define our words, but they don't define us.</span><br>Self-Defined seeks to provide more inclusive, holistic, and fluid definitions to reflect the modern world.<br>
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<pclass="word__breakdown">Crazy is very commonly used as an adjective to embody a vast array of ideas, often not specifically. It is used so frequently that it sometimes is a filler. Crazy can also be used in a derogatory manner for someone with mental or psychiatric disabilities.</p>
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<pclass="word__breakdown">By using ableist language, we are perpetuating violence against people who experience mental or psychological disabilities. Using it perpetuates those systems and language of harm, regardless of our intent.</p>
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Be more specific. Typically we can find an alternate definition by simply reflecting on what emotion we're really feeling.
the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole
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<pclass="word__breakdown"> Minorities is not always accurate. As it deals with numbers, often the insinuation of racial minorities is inaccurate, as communities of colour often outnumber white communities.</p>
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<pclass="word__breakdown">By repeatedly referring to groups as "minorities," they are being infantised and made to feel minor.</p>
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<aclass="word__link"href="#minoritised">minoritised</a>, or omit
groups resulting from social constructs have grant less power or representation compared to other members or groups in society
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<pclass="word__breakdown"> Minoritised places the emphasis on the power struggle, and on the systemic issues at play. It's also an adjective, which requires you to add "group" or "people" so it's people-first language</p>
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<pclass="word__breakdown">It removes the pejorative nature of "minorities".</p>
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<aclass="word__link"href="#minorities">minorities</a>, or omit
the teaching of English to people who speak a different language and who live in a country where English is the main language spoken
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<pclass="word__breakdown"> Monolinguist, English-only speakers often refer to people who don't speak English natively as "ESL" or say they are learning a "second language". More often than not, this is not true, as many people are multi-lingual with 3 or more languages</p>
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<pclass="word__breakdown">It makes false assumptions about English learners, centres English as the "default" or "expected" first language, ignoring that many people learn multiple (>3), non-English languages first.</p>
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<aclass="word__link"href="#">English as learning-language (ELL)</a>, or <aclass="word__link"href="#">non-native</a>, or omit (because do you really know, for sure?)
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women and people of colour
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often used as a phrase to encompass "non-white, non-men," seeking to provide solidarity for these two groups
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<pclass="word__breakdown">What happens to women of colour? As a woman of colour, I am split between both women and people of colour.</p>
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<pclass="word__breakdown">As such, it elicits feelings of erasure for women of colour. It also neglects non-binary individuals.</p>
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<aclass="word__link"href="#">people of colour and white women </a> or <aclass="word__link"href="#">people of colour, white non-binary people, and white women</a>, find ways to reframe why this dynamic exists, or omit</span></p>
