DWEM
noun [ C ] informal (also Dwem) uk/dwem/ us/dwem/
已过世的欧洲白人男性（已去世的男性作家或其他著名人物因为是白人而备受尊敬，而不是因为其作品比其他人更值得尊敬，Dead White European Male 的缩写）
abbreviation for Dead White European Male: a male writer or other famous person who may be highly respected because he was a white man who is no longer alive, rather than because his work deserves more respect than that of others
The books high school students in the city were required to read were all written by DWEMs. 全市中学生必须阅读的书籍都是已过世的欧洲白人男性的作品。
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- It is possible now to go through the whole college liberal arts course without ever reading Shakespeare (a DWEM).
- He seems to believe that the only people who matter in the history of human culture are the DWEMs.
- They demanded that, instead of only studying the work of dead white European males (or Dwems), English students should be offered more relevant texts by writers outside the usual canon.