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In American slang, a coward is said to be "yellowbellied" or "yellow".

 

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"Yellow" ("giallo"), in Italy, refers to crime stories, both fictional and real.

 

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This association began about in 1930 because the first series of crime novels published in Italy had a yellow cover.

 

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Pencils are often painted yellow, originally because of the association of this color with the orient, where the best graphite was found.

 

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Ethnography

 

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Asian people are sometimes referred to as the yellow race.

 

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The use of "yellow" to refer to people of East Asian descent is usually regarded as offensive today in most contexts.

 

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In early 20th-century North America, immigrants from China and other East Asian nations were derogatorily referred to as a "yellow peril."

 

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A High yellow is African-American slang for someone who is a very light-skinned African-American.

 

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This term was widely used in the early 20th century but it is seldom heard nowadays.

 

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Games

 

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Yellow is the color of the snooker ball that has a 2-point value.

 

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A semi-popular game in the UK is "Yellow Car", which involves yelling "Yellow Car" and striking someone close to you on spotting a yellow car.

 

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History

 

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The legendary first emperor of China was known as the Yellow Emperor or Huang Di (Chinese: 黃帝, Simplified Chinese: 黄帝).

 

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The Yellow Turbans were a Daoist sect that staged an extensive rebellion during the Han Dynasty.

 

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Journalism

 

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"Yellow journalism" was sensationalist journalism that distorts, exaggerates, or exploits news to maximize profit.

 

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The term came from Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, who engaged in sensational reporting during the late 19th and early 20th century, most famously during the Spanish-American War.

 

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The term was derived from the color comic strip The Yellow Kid, which appeared in both papers.