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- noun derogatory, Singaporean, dated The tendency of some
Asians to considerCaucasians superior, and to be biased infavour of Caucasians over Asians.
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The term is from the character of Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton in the Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly.
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