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peripheral adjective beside the point, collateral, exterior, external, extraneous, farthest, fringe, impertinent, inconsequential, inessential, irrelevant, on the edge, outer, outermost, outland, outlying, outmost, outside, perimetric, perimetrical, secondary, trivial, unimportant, without See also: collateral, expendable, extraneous, extrinsic, immaterial, insignificant, minor, nonessential, null How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The sub-indices or components used for this purpose represent: * Trade openness (export, imports or both as a ratio of gross domestic product (GDP) * Export concentration * Peripherality (transport and freight costs in relation to foreign trade) * Energy dependence (imported energy as a ratio of energy consumed) * Financial dependence (aid or international debt as a ratio of GDP). Louis Owens argues that all Indian novelists are mixedbloods in the cultural sense, forced "to come to terms with peripherality as well as both European and Indian ethnicity" (5). Black talk certainly fits this description, but as the speech act of a minority, its particularity further connotes its sense of peripherality - of the eagerly guarded "privacy" that Reesie and her friends talk about. |
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