Both adherence to and deviation from such approved behaviors, define and reinforce racial, ethnic, and nationalist regimes.
The definition of a mote is a speck or a very small piece of something. An example of a mote is a particle of dirt. a speck of dust or other tiny particle.
Mote refers to a small particle, as a bit of sawdust; beam refers to a glance, or eyebeam, formerly thought to be emitted from, rather than received by the eye. Shakespeare makes use of the allusion in Loveâs Laborâs Lost: You found his mote, the King your mote did see, But I a beam do find in each of three.