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Complete Definition of "White Legend"

English

Etymology
The term was coined as an insidious extension of the Black Legend.

Proper noun
White Legend

  1. The term purports to counterbalance the defamatory anti-Hispanic Black Legend (Spanish: Leyenda Negra). It is an insidious aspect of the Black Legend in that it characterizes documented historical facts favorable to Hispanics as exaggerated praise and therefore suspect.

See also
Black Legend

Category:English proper nouns

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