"rice eater" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1928, Frederick Elmore Lumley, Principles of Sociology, page 36:",
          "text": "The beef eater needs a knife and a fork, while the rice eater does not.",
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          "ref": "1953, Francisco Ortigas, Planting Rice is Never Fun, page 108:",
          "text": "The problem of the rice eater has two solutions. He can change his staple food from rice to bread; or he can reduce his consumption of rice and increase that of his fish, vegetable and meat food.",
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          "ref": "1993, Kathleen Aguero, Daily Fare: Essays from the Multicultural Experience, →ISBN, page 174:",
          "text": "At that time, I didn't think to ask how he, a rice eater, could have been forced to eat bread.",
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        "Alternative form of rice-eater",
        "One who eats rice as a dietary staple."
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          "ref": "2002, Emily White, Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut, →ISBN, page 178:",
          "text": "\"They called me a gook and a rice eater.\" Yet right beneath or simultaneous with the racial harassment, the slut story took shape.",
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          "ref": "2008, Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“No khampa lets a damned rice eater beat him.” He laughed and looked around. No one joined.",
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          "ref": "2010, Edward Cerda, Full Moon, →ISBN:",
          "text": "But I still don't trust this sorry slant eyed rice eater.",
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          "ref": "1928, Frederick Elmore Lumley, Principles of Sociology, page 36:",
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          "text": "At that time, I didn't think to ask how he, a rice eater, could have been forced to eat bread.",
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        "Alternative form of rice-eater",
        "One who eats rice as a dietary staple."
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          "text": "But I still don't trust this sorry slant eyed rice eater.",
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