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Thinking more on it, the perjoritive you described is what the ignorant GOP base imagined Black Americans to be, and "Neoconservative" describes what we imagine them to be.
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The dominant Sinhalese -- who actually arrived about 2,000 years ago, legendarily from somewhere in N. India (maybe what's now Bihar), are certainly not the Island's aboriginal population, which latter -- as a debased and demonized (literally, as their common perjoritive name "Yakshi" mean demon) minority finally died out/terminally assimilated just in the last century.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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