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  2. Stereotypes of white Americans - Wikipedia

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    Stereotypes of white Americans have been shown to vary according to socioeconomic status. [ 1] In general, stereotypes of white people portray upper class white Americans as WASPs and they portray lower class white Americans as "backward", "barely-educated" rednecks. [ 8] Rednecks, conversely are seen as "racist, hot-headed, too physical ...

  3. List of entertainment affected by the September 11 attacks

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    Bad Company (2002) - Its release date pushed back several months because the plot involved a criminal mastermind planning to detonate a bomb in the Grand Central Terminal. Gangs of New York (2002) - The movie's release date was intended for Christmas 2001, but due to the September 11 attacks it was delayed until a year later.

  4. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.

  5. Psychorama - Wikipedia

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    Psychorama, also called the precon process, is the act of communicating subliminal information through film by flashing images on the screen so quickly that they cannot be perceived by the conscious mind. It is a subset of subliminal messaging that is applied only through non-verbal messages in film. The name most commonly refers to a "gimmick ...

  6. Omen - Wikipedia

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    Explanations in English were added to this manuscript by a nineteenth-century American missionary. [ 1] An omen (also called portent) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. [ 2] It was commonly believed in ancient times, and still believed by some today, that omens bring divine messages ...

  7. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face. Hybrid image. A Hybrid image is an optical illusion developed at MIT in which an image can be interpreted in one of two different ways depending on viewing distance. Illusory contours.

  8. Wikipedia : Graphic and potentially disturbing images

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    A final point of semantics: all images are "graphic". Say what you really mean: "Offensive". — Clarknova 03:56, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC) If an image is offensive to a large number of people, I think it should be linked to rather than inlined. For instance, the photographs in Clitoris and Vulva should be linked to rather than inlined.

  9. Anaglyph 3D - Wikipedia

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    If you view the image with red-cyan 3D glasses, the text will alternate between Red and Blue. 3D red cyan glasses are recommended to view this image correctly. Anaglyph 3D is the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eye's image using filters of different (usually chromatically opposite) colors, typically red and cyan ...