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Wasta vs Rasta - What's the difference?

wasta | rasta |

As nouns the difference between wasta and rasta

is that wasta is intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood while rasta is belonging to an originally Jamaican sect regarding Blacks as chosen people, and the Jamaican national colors and the leaf of the marijuana plant as symbols.

As a proper noun Rasta is

rastafari.

wasta

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Arab society, often, italicized) Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood
  • * {{quote-news, 2003, 15 June, Syed Rashid Husain, 'Wasta' at US Embassy, Arab News citation
    • , passage=The number of those traveling to the US during summer may definitely have gone down, but if one can hook onto a wasta , one could get into the queue of applicants without having to get up early in the morning.}}

    Synonyms

    * connections, nepotism

    See also

    * (wikipedia "wasta")

    rasta

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • belonging to an originally Jamaican sect regarding Blacks as chosen people, and the Jamaican national colors and the leaf of the marijuana plant as symbols

    • Anagrams

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