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1
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Le racisme

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Racism

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Une société sans discrimination sociale

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A colour-blind society

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A des milliers de kilomètres de distance

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Thousands of miles apart

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La propagande

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Propaganda

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Répandre des théories racistes

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To spread racist theories

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Les préjugés raciaux

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Racial bias

Racial prejudice

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La couleur de peau

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Skin colour

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Être métis

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To be mixed-race

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The fourteenth amendment to the constitution

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1868
Provides a definition of citizenship that includes slaves and their descendants who until then had been denied constitutional rights

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La ségrégation

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Segregation

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L’apartheid

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Apartheid

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La déségrégation

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Desegregation

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Supprimer la ségrégation raciale dans les écoles

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To desegregate schools

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Apartheid

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1948-1994
System of racial segregation in South Africa.
Inhabitants were classified in four racial groups: black, white, coloured and Indian.

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Un esclave

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A slave

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L’esclavage

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Slavery

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Le commerce des esclaves

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The slave trade

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Abolir l’esclavage

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To abolish slavery

To do away with slavery

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Guerre de sécession

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The Civil war

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Toilettes

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Restrooms

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The Jim Crow laws

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1876
South of the US
“Separate but equal status” for black people
Imposed segregation in schools, public places, public transport, restrooms for black and white citizens

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Étroit d’esprit

Borné

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Narrow-minded

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Propager la haine

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To propagate hatred

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L’incitation à la haine raciale

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Incitement to racial hatred

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Des propos racistes

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Hate speech

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Une agression à caractère racial

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A racist attack

A racially motivated attack

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Des insultes à caractère racial

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Racial abuse

Racist abuse

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Les tensions raciales

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Racial tensions

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Alimenter les tensions

Nourrir les tensions

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To fuel tensions

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The civil rights movement

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1950s in the south of the US

Non-violent protest movement aiming to put an end to racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans.

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Martin Lutherking I have a dream speech

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The August 1963 March on Washington

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The civil rights act

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1964

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Équipements

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Facilities

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Juif

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Jewish

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Un juif

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A Jew

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L’antisémitisme

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Anti-Semitism

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Profaner une tombe

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To desecrate a grave

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Le négationniste

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Revisionism

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Un négationniste

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A revisionist

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Nier

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To deny

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Un bouc émissaire

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A scapegoat

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Les relations interraciales

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Race relations

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La discrimination raciale

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Racial discrimination
The colour bar
The color bar
The color line

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Être victime d’une discrimination

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To be discriminated against

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Nativism

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The belief that the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation must be favored over the claims of newcomers or immigrants.

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Anciens combattants

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Veterans

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Ku klux klan

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1865
Founded by Tennessee veterans of the confederate Army
Anti-Catholicism, anti-communism, pro-nativism, anti-Semitism

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Au lendemain

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In the wake of

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How many members of the ku klux klan are there?

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4 million (mid 1920s)
30 000 (1930)
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Afro-américain

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African-American

Afro-American

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Américain d’origine asiatique

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Asian-American

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Une société multi-raciale

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A multiracial society

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Un mariage mixte

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A mixed marriage
A mixed-race marriage
An interracial marriage

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Un ghetto

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A ghetto

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Une minorité ethnique

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An ethnic minority

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Proscrire

Déclarer hors la loi

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To outlaw

To ban

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Discrimination positive

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Affirmative action

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NAACP

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
1909
Civil rights organization in the US

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Influents

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Influential

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Sans discrimination raciale

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Colour-blind

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Quelle que soit la race

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Regardless of race

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Délit de faciès

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Racial profiling

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Driving while black

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“Délit de faciès”

It refers to “driving while intoxicated” as if being black is a crime

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Conduite en état d’ébriété

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Driving while intoxicated

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Les contrôles d’identité

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Identity checks

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Se sentir exclu

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To feel alienated

To feel excluded

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Une société a 2 vitesses

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A two-tier society

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Des citoyens de seconde zone

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Second-class citizens

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BNP

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British National Party
Racist ideology
Won 2 sits in the European Parliament in 2009 but doesn’t have any in the House of Commons

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Subir une injustice

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To suffer a wrong

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Réparer une injustice

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To right a wrong

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S’excuser auprès de quelqu’un

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To apologize to somebody

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Militants

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Activists

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Distribuer

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To hand out

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