Pariah
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Pariah, originally the name of the Pariah caste in India, has gained widespread use as an analogy, especially in the phrase social pariah, as a term for anyone considered an outcast or noticeably different by others.
The British politician Palmerston used the term this way in an 1850 speech on Greek foreign affairs. [1]
This word is sometimes considered to be offensive. It has also been adopted as:
- Pariah dog, a breed of primitive dogs
- Pariah, a DC Comics character.
- Pariah, a founding member of The Threshold, an organization in Doctor Who comics, as featured in Doctor Who Magazine
- Pariah, a video game for PC and Xbox
- Pariah, a musical group.
- Pariah state — for example, South Africa during the apartheid years
- Pariah, the name for elite Necron troops in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game
- Pariah, 2005 album by the band Naglfar
- Pariah, production company for The Showbiz Show with David Spade
- Pariah Dark, a fictional character from Danny Phantom. He is the main villain from Reign Storm. He is voiced by Brian Cox.
- ^ "HANSARD CXII {3d Ser.}, 380-444" June 25, 1850.
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