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Someone everyone agrees to blame so the group can feel clean.
means An outcast rejected by a community or group, often unfairly or as a scapegoat.
from From Tamil 'paraiyar,' a community of drummers and laborers in South India who were treated as outside the caste system — the paraiyar announced events by beating the 'parai' drum. British colonists in India picked up the word, flattened a real people into a general term for 'untouchable,' and exported it into English by the early 1800s as a word for anyone cast out by society.
- origin
- from Tamil paraiyar, a drummer caste
- colonial twist
- british turned a job title into an insult
- social function
- groups bond faster by excluding one than including all
- state version
- pariah states still get invited to black markets