racially challenged

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not white, and thus facing challenges (or perceived as deficient) due to racism. US,euphemistic,not-comparable
    — He'd assumed that on average Italians were about as dumb, lazy and street-level criminal as a certain racially challenged segment of the U.S. population, only with better cuisine and cuter noses.
  2. White, and thus facing challenges in appealing to nonwhite voters, or in functioning (due to being racist), etc. US,euphemistic,not-comparable
    — […] almost stateless, of coming to a country which was 'racially challenged', which had a law against Chinese immigration, and which was about to intern its citizens of Japanese origin.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see racially, challenged. not-comparable
    — […] belonging, accommodation and attachment to a nation, with white Africans or Asian Africans being nationalistically and racially challenged. The case of politically aspiring white Kenyans has become a recent politically heated debate.
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