But our children come into the world unaware of any such repudiations; what we have put into our shadow sides may lie in the midday sun of our offspring's young lives.
The question of which words belong in the dictionary impacts all of us — when our words and definitions are represented, they're affirmed; if not, they — and we — are minimized.
But in the 1920s, when there was a stemming of migration from Europe, they were subsumed into the larger category of “whiteness” to shore up a cultural majority against other racial groups and new immigrants.
If you're feeling stuck in a mismatched loop, you might have unwittingly been lumped in with a group who have a specific set of tastes that you don't share.
And when Megalodon was first described in 1835, scientists thought that its big, serrated, blade-like teeth looked so much like those of the great white that Megalodon was originally placed in the same family.