backwardness

“Laziness, as well as characteristics of submissiveness, backwardness, lewdness, treachery, and dishonesty, historically became stereotypes assigned to African Americans,” the National Museum of African American History and Culture explains.

Demands for affirmative action on the grounds of “social and economic backwardness” from the middle-tier but powerful Maratha caste in the western state of Maharashtra led to a hasty survey in January, in which enumerators were sent out at short notice to cover a very large population.

"In the 1990s our challenge was authoritarianism. We needed democracy. Today our challenge is inequality and backwardness," Budiman says in his campaign office, ahead of Indonesia's presidential race on 14 February.

The 86-year-old pope has flashed signs of irritation before, calling a conservative Catholic TV network “the work of the devil” and talking about his American critics’ “backwardness.”

Pope Francis has blasted the ‘backwardness’ of some conservatives in the U.S.