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・ Play the Game
・ Play the Game (American game show)
・ Play the Game (film)
・ Play the Game (Irish game show)
・ Play the Game (NGO)
・ Play the Game (song)
・ Play the Game Right
・ Play the Game Tonight
・ Play the Guitar
・ Play the King
・ Play the King Stakes
・ Play the Percentages
・ Play the Red
・ Play the Right Thing
・ Play the Siren
Play the white man
・ Play Their Hearts Out
・ Play therapy
・ Play thru Me
・ Play Time's Over
・ Play to the End
・ Play to the Whistle
・ Play to Win
・ Play TV
・ Play TV (Ireland)
・ Play TV (Pakistan)
・ Play TV (Radica)
・ Play UK
・ Play Up the Band
・ Play value


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Play the white man : ウィキペディア英語版
Play the white man
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Play the white man is a term used in parts of Britain meaning to be decent and trustworthy in one's actions. The similar American expression is "that's mighty white of you" with the meaning of "thank you for being fair".〔Smitherman, G (2006). Words and Expressions, Proverbs and Familiar Sayings. Word from the mother (pp. 45). Routledge: New York.〕
The origin of the phrase is obscure. The colour white has long been associated with purity and virtue in English culture, but the racial sense of the expression may refer more explicitly to the administrators and soldiers of the 19th-century British Empire.
==In popular culture==
In the 1960s or before, the phrase "mighty white of you" was adopted by black Americans as an insult to those who had learned their abuse of others from the white racists who demeaned or maltreated blacks. As such, the insult is doubly cutting.

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