Blackfishing

Commonly perpetrated by females of European descent (white) which involves artificial tanning (spray tanning and tanning booths) and using makeup to manipulate facial features in order to appear to have some type of Black African ancestry.

The general point of blackfishing is for a female of European descent to appear of African, Arab, or Hispanic ancestry.

Some consider it to be equivalent to modern day “black face” because it capitalizes off the looks of historically oppressed groups of people by people who come from more privileged backgrounds.

“Emma Hallberg is a beautiful mixed race Swede.”

“No, Emma isn’t mixed race, she’s just blackfishing.”

“They want to be black without being black.”

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Hayati

An Arabic word that means "my life", also commonly used as a term of endearment. Urdu and Hindi have adopted the Arabic word with similar meaning. Also equivalent to Hindi/Urdu "jaan" (Arabic origin word as well), and Farsi "joon" (also Arabic origin word).

Pronounced: ha-ya-tee
حياتي

Terms of endearment examples:

Rami: "Layla, I love you habibte"
Layla: "I love you more hayati"

Fares: "Did you hear Haifa's new song? "
Sarah: "No hayati, is it good?"

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Literal meaning example:

Marwa: "Myriam, are you really going to marry him?"

Myriam: "Yeah I love him, it's hayati, and I'll do what I want"

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