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  Barbarian
Barbarian was originally a disparaging term applied to a foreigner, one not sharing a recognized culture or degree of polish with the speaker or writer employing the term.
The barbarian is technically a social parasite on civilization, who depends on settlements as a source of slaves, surpluses and portable luxuries: booty, loot and plunder.
The culture of the nomad is not to be confused with the barbarian, either.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/barbarian.html   (489 words)

  
 Amongst Barbarians -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Amongst Barbarians -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
In the course of their futile attempts at influencing the authorities, their (The prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races) racism becomes more than apparent.
The question which is never made explicit is of course who the real (A member of an uncivilized people) barbarians are.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amongst_barbarians.htm   (143 words)

  
 Amongst Barbarians - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Amongst Barbarians is set far away from Margaret Thatcher's Britain in Penang, Malaysia, a former British colony, where two young Englishmen have been arrested for drug trafficking.
In the course of their futile attempts at influencing the authorities, their racism becomes more than apparent.
The question which is never made explicit is of course who the real barbarians are.
open-encyclopedia.com /Amongst_Barbarians   (139 words)

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