"white guilt" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} white guilt (uncountable)
  1. The individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from past or current racist treatment of other ethnicities by white people. Wikipedia link: white guilt Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Racism Related terms: liberal guilt Translations (guilt): 白人内疚 (báirén nèijiù) (Chinese Mandarin), valkoinen syyllisyys (Finnish), culpabilité blanche [feminine] (French), fehér bűntudat (Hungarian)
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