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Choking game
The choking game (self-asphyxial behaviour, pass-out game) is youth self-strangulation or strangulation by another to induce euphoria from cerebral hypoxia; CDC counted 82 US deaths aged 6–19 in 1995–2007, mostly boys playing alone.
Chokwe people
The Chokwe, also spelled Tshokwe or Cokwe, are a matrilineal Bantu-speaking people of northeastern Angola, the DR Congo, and northwestern Zambia who overthrew the Lunda Empire in the late 1800s.
Cholo
Cholo (feminine chola): a Spanish-American social and ethnic category. In colonial Peru and Bolivia it named mixed-descent people; in 20th-century Andean societies an urbanized Indigenous-background group (cholificación); in the US a Chicano street subculture.
Cholo (subculture)
Cholo (feminine chola) is a Mexican American subculture from Southern California barrio gangs, descended from 1930s-1950s pachuco zoot-suiters, marked by distinct dress, tattoos, lowriders, caló-influenced speech, and values of loyalty and territory; distinct from the Andean chola caste meaning.
Chongryon
Chongryon (재일본조선인총련합회), the pro-North Korean General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, founded May 1955; runs ethnic schools, Korea University, and Choson Sinbo; distinct from South Korea-aligned Mindan.
Chowdhury
Chowdhury (Bengali: চৌধুরী), also spelled Choudhury or Chaudhary, is a South Asian title-turned-surname meaning headman or holder of four, borne by Hindus and Muslims, most common in Bangladesh where it ranks 11th.
Chris McCandless
Chris McCandless (Alexander Supertramp), American wanderer who gave away $24,000, hiked Alaska's Stampede Trail in 1992, and starved to death in Fairbanks Bus 142 near Denali; subject of Krakauer's Into the Wild and Penn's 2007 film.
Christian countercult movement
Christian countercult movement (CCM), also called countercult or discernment ministries: evangelical apologetics groups opposing new religious movements on theological grounds, distinct from the secular anticult; targets include Mormonism and Freemasonry; goals are evangelization and worldview maintenance.
Christian population growth
Christian population growth tracks the change in the world's largest religious group. It reached 2.3 billion by 2020, though its share of the global population fell to 29%.
Christian supremacy
Christian supremacy, also called Christian supremacist ideology, holds that Christians are entitled to dominate politics, law, and culture, overlapping with but distinct from Christian nationalism.
Christian views on divorce
Christian views on divorce cover how traditions interpret Matthew's porneia exception clause, Mark and Luke's exceptionless prohibition, and 1 Corinthians 7, producing Catholic indissolubility with annulment, Orthodox penitential remarriage, and varied Protestant grounds.
Christian Walker (media personality)
Christian Walker (born 1999) is an American conservative social media personality, podcast host, and son of Herschel Walker, known for Starbucks drive-through political rants and his October 2022 public denunciation of his father's Senate campaign.
Christina Hoff Sommers
Christina Hoff Sommers, AEI resident scholar and former Clark University philosophy professor, author of Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000), equity-feminism advocate and host of The Factual Feminist.
Christine Jorgensen
Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989), born George William Jorgensen Jr. in the Bronx, was an American trans woman, first widely known in the US for sex reassignment surgery in Denmark under Christian Hamburger; NY Daily News scoop of December 1, 1952 made her a celebrity, entertainer, and transgender advocate.
Christine King Farris
Christine King Farris (Willie Christine King, 1927-2023), eldest sister of Martin Luther King Jr., Spelman College education professor for 56 years, King Center vice chair and treasurer, and author of My Brother Martin and Through It All.
Christopher Street Day
Christopher Street Day (CSD) is the name used in Germany and Switzerland for yearly Pride marches, named for the 1969 Stonewall rebellion near Christopher Street in New York.
Christopher Thomas Knight
Christopher Thomas Knight, known as the North Pond Hermit, lived alone in the Maine woods for 27 years until his 2013 arrest for about 1,000 cabin burglaries.
Chromesthesia
Chromesthesia (coloured hearing, sound-to-color synesthesia) is a form of synesthesia in which sound, especially music, involuntarily and consistently evokes color experiences; accounts include the 1812 Sachs case, hyperconnectivity and disinhibited feedback theories, and an 18.50% share of color-synesthesia variants.
Chronemics
Chronemics is the study of time use in nonverbal communication, also called temporal communication. It covers punctuality, waiting, pauses, and response latency, Hall's monochronic versus polychronic cultural time orientations, and chronemic cues in computer-mediated communication.
Chronostasis
Chronostasis, the stopped-clock illusion, is a temporal illusion in which the first stimulus seen after a saccade appears longer; also occurs in auditory, tactile, and oddball forms without voluntary action.
Chukchi people
Chukchi (Luoravetlan), an indigenous people of the Chukotka Peninsula in northeastern Siberia, traditionally reindeer herders inland and marine mammal hunters on the coast; about 16,000 people speaking a Paleo-Asiatic language with gender-specific pronunciation.
Chumash people
Chumash: Indigenous people of California's central and southern coast and northern Channel Islands, from Malibu to Paso Robles. Known for the tomol plank canoe, shell bead money, the 1824 revolt, and the federally recognized Santa Ynez Band.
Chuppah (חופה)
Chuppah (חופה, also huppah; plural chuppot) is the canopy under which a Jewish wedding ceremony is held, literally "covering." Originally the bridal chamber, it became a four-pole cloth canopy symbolizing the couple's new home, open on all sides.
Chuvash people
Chuvash (чăваш): Turkic people of the middle Volga, Russia, about 1.5 million in 2010, half in Chuvashia. Their language is the only surviving Bulgharic (Oghuric) Turkic language; mostly Orthodox Christian, descended from Volga Bulgar groups.
Cinderella effect
The Cinderella effect is the elevated risk of abuse, neglect, and lethal maltreatment faced by stepchildren versus genetic children, named by evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, with reported effects up to 100-fold or more in fatal cases and continuing debate over confounding and reporting bias.
Cindy Pritzker
Cindy Pritzker (Marian "Cindy" Friend Pritzker, 1923–2025), Chicago civic leader and philanthropist, aunt of Gov. JB Pritzker: led the Chicago Public Library Board 1989–1998, founded the Chicago Public Library Foundation (1986), and co-founded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1979) with husband Jay Pritzker.
Circassians
The Circassians, known in their own language as Adyghe, are a largely Muslim Northwest Caucasus people, most of whom now live in exile, above all in Turkey.
Circle jerk
Circle jerk (circlejerk) is vulgar slang for a group of men masturbating in a circle, and figuratively for a self-congratulatory echo chamber. Documented from 1958 print, figurative by 1972, online via Urban Dictionary 2003 and Reddit's r/circlejerk 2008.
Cisgender
Cisgender (cis): describes people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth; entered circulation in the 1990s, added to the OED in 2015, counterpart to transgender.
Citizenship Amendment Act protests
Nationwide Indian protest movement, December 2019 to March 2020, against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, which first made religion a citizenship criterion; centered on Shaheen Bagh sit-in, with deaths, detentions and 2024 implementation.