Parsley massacre
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The Parsley massacre, often colloquially called the Cutting, was a mass killing of Haitians living in settlements and occupied land in the Dominican Republic's northwestern frontier and in certain par
Rafael Trujillo on a 1930s stamp
Shibboleth
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A shibboleth is any custom or tradition—usually a choice of phrasing or single word—that distinguishes one group of people from another. Historically, shibboleths have been used as passwords, ways of
Parsley massacre
…comes from reports that Dominican troops interrogated thousands of civilians demanding that each victim say the Spanish word perejil ("parsley") as a shibboleth. The pronunciation test is referred to as the parsley test. According to the stories, if the accused could not pronounce the word to the interrogators…
A New Orleans resident challenges out-of-towners who had come to protest against the 2017 removal of the Robert E. Lee Monument. The out-of-towners' inability to pronounce "Tchoupitoulas Street" according to the local fashion would be a shibboleth marking them as outsiders.
Shepherds fording the river Jordan (old postcard). The men of Ephraim could not cross without saying the password.
Villagers of Ungheni, Bessarabia Governorate, displaying Christian icons on their homes in order to distinguish themselves from Jews, and avoid being targeted during a pogrom in 1905 (painting by Hermanus Willem Koekkoek).
Koreans being stabbed by vigilantes during the Kantō Massacre (1923)