Black Legend

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专有名词
  1. The depiction of Spain and Spaniards (or, by extension, all Hispanics and their countries of origin) as bloodthirsty and cruel, greedy and fanatical, especially concerning the colonial period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
    — […]if the black legend seemed to be fading at last, the horrors of the Civil War revived it with a vengeance. Never was a conflict fought more bitterly.

词形变化

the Black Legend canonical black legend alternative

词源

Calque of Spanish Leyenda Negra (literally “Black Legend”).
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