名めい誉よ白はく人じん

noun

honorary white

Historical term from apartheid-era South Africa; non-white people, including Japanese, were granted certain privileges normally reserved for whites.

• アパルトヘイト時じ代だい、日本にほん人じんは名めい誉よ白はく人じんとして扱あつかわれた。

  During the apartheid era, Japanese people were treated as honorary whites.