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yellow man en · NOUN
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(qualifier:now considered an ethnic slur and offensive) An Asian man or a man with Asian heritage
Won Chou merely relapsed into an attitude of studious melancholy, extremely trying to Mr. Fank's conception of the yellow man's status.
1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
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(qualifier:now considered an ethnic slur and offensive) Asian people collectively; Asian culture.
Got in a little hometown jam / So they put a rifle in my hand / Sent me off to a foreign land / To go and kill the yellow man.
1984, Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A.”:
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