white guilt

English

Noun

white guilt (uncountable)

1. The individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from past or current racist treatment of other ethnicities by white people. [from 1960s]
   • 1997, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown, spoken by Max Cherry (Robert Forster):

     Is white guilt supposed to make me forget I'm running a business?

Translations

guilt

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白人内疚 (báirén nèijiù)

• Finnish: valkoinen syyllisyys
• French: culpabilité blanche f
• Hungarian: fehér bűntudat

See also

• liberal guilt