mankurt

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his or her ancestry, especially due to being affected by a dominant culture. derogatory,uncommon
    — A mankurt differs from a renegade in that a renegade primarily betrays their community, while a mankurt primarily betrays themself. The mankurt's lost identity is a de-centering problem, […]

词形变化

mankurts plural

词源

From Russian манкурт (mankurt). Coined by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov in his novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1980), in which people are turned into docile servants (mankurts) by exposing camel skin wrapped around their heads to the heat of the sun; the skins tighten as they dry, causing brain damage, such that the mankurts no longer recognize their name, family, or tribe—"a mankurt did not recognise himself as a human being".
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