DWEM

Dwem

(dwɛm)

n acronym for

(Sociology) Dead White European Male

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DWEM

Slang. dead white European male.

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which mostly consists of Dead White European Males (DWEM) (Chalmers,

Biculturalism and multiculturalism: competing tensions in visual arts education in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Political correctness has brought about a new vocabulary of words into our culture with terms like homophobic, multicultural, Eurocentric, disadvantaged, physically challenged, carbon footprint, sex worker, lookism, fattist, phallocentric, waitron, wimmin, differently abled, and DWEM (dead white European males).