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  2. Honor killing - Wikipedia

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    An honor killing ( American English ), honour killing ( Commonwealth English ), or shame killing [1] is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of ...

  3. Victim blaming - Wikipedia

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    Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them. There is historical and current prejudice against the victims of domestic violence and sex crimes, such as the greater tendency to blame victims of rape than victims of robbery if victims and perpetrators knew each other prior to the commission of the crime.

  4. Humility - Wikipedia

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    Humility is the quality of being humble. [1] Dictionary definitions accentuate humility as low self-regard and sense of unworthiness. [2] In a religious context, humility can mean a recognition of self in relation to a deity (i.e. God ), and subsequent submission to that deity as a member of that religion.

  5. Haya (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    The original meaning of Haya refers to "a bad or uneasy feeling accompanied by embarrassment". Importance. Haya is important for Muslims and in Islamic cultures—for both men and women. In the Qur'an, verses explain how men and women should behave. According to the values of Haya, a man must control himself by marrying as young as feasible.

  6. Malayalam - Wikipedia

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    Malayalam has a canonical word order of SOV (subject–object–verb), as do other Dravidian languages. A rare OSV word order occurs in interrogative clauses when the interrogative word is the subject. Both adjectives and possessive adjectives precede the nouns they modify. Malayalam has 6 or 7 [unreliable source?] grammatical cases. Verbs are ...

  7. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    The origin of this word cannot be conclusively attributed to Malayalam or Tamil. Congee, porridge, water with rice; uncertain origin, possibly from Tamil kanji (கஞ்சி), [7] Telugu or Kannada gañji, or Malayalam kaññi (കഞ്ഞി). [citation needed] Alternatively, possibly from Gujarati, [8] which is not a Dravidian language.

  8. Guilt–shame–fear spectrum of cultures - Wikipedia

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    Guilt–shame–fear spectrum of cultures. In cultural anthropology, the distinction between a guilt society or guilt culture, shame society or shame culture, and a fear society or culture of fear, has been used to categorize different cultures. [1] The differences can apply to how behavior is governed with respect to government laws, business ...

  9. Slut-shaming - Wikipedia

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    Slut-shaming is the practice of criticizing people, especially women and girls, who violate expectations of behavior and appearance regarding issues related to sexuality. [1] [2] [3] The term is used to reclaim the word slut and empower women and girls to have agency over their own sexuality. [3] Gender-based violence can be a result of slut ...