mindmap root((DEM/DEMO)) demographic Having to do with the study of human populations, especially their size, growth, density, and patterns of living.
🌱Each year the state government uses the most current demographic figures to determine how to distribute its funding for education. 🌳Demographic analysis, the statistical description of human populations, is a tool used by government agencies, political parties, and manufacturers of consumer goods. Polls conducted on every topic imaginable, from age to toothpaste preference, give the government and corporations an idea of who the public is and what it needs and wants. The government's census, which is conducted every ten years, is the largest demographic survey of all. Today demographic is also being used as a noun; so, for example, TV advertisers are constantly worrying about how to appeal to "the 18-to-24-year-old demographic." endemic 1、 Found only in a given place or region.
2、 Often found in a given occupation, area, or environment.
🌱Malaria remains endemic in tropical regions around the world. 🌳With its en- prefix, endemic means literally "in the population." Since the panda is found in the wild exclusively in central China and eastern Tibet, scientists say it's "endemic to" those areas. But the word can also mean simply "common" or "typical"; so we can say that corruption is endemic in the government of a country, that colds are "endemic in" nursery school, or that love of Barbie dolls is "endemic among" young American girls. Don't confuse endemic with epidemic; something can be endemic in a region for centuries without ever "exploding." demagogue A political leader who appeals to the emotions and prejudices of people in order to arouse discontent and to advance his or her own political purposes.
🌱His supporters called him a "man of the people"; his enemies called him a lying demagogue. 🌳Demagogue was once defined by the writer H. L. Mencken as "one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots," and Mencken's definition still works quite well. The "doctrines" （ideas） preached by demagogues will naturally always be the kind that appeal directly to the ordinary voter, the "common man" or "little guy." Appealing to the common people is not itself a bad thing, but it has often been used by those who calculate that demagoguery （or demagogy） is the easiest way to power. In most countries, fear of demagogic leaders is so strong that voters aren't even permitted to vote directly for the nation's leader, but instead vote only for a local representative. demotic Popular or common.
🌱Partly because of television, the demotic language and accents of America's various regions have become more and more similar. 🌳For many years demotic was used only to describe the writing of ancient Egypt, as the name of the script used by ordinary Egyptians rather than by their priests. Demotic is still an intellectual word, but it can now be used to describe any popular style in contrast to a style associated with a higher class, especially a style of speech or writing. So, for example, demotic Californian is different from demotic Texan. The most demotic dress today is probably blue jeans and sneakers, and those who wear them have demotic taste in fashion. The problem is, in American society it can sometimes be hard to find a style that can't be described as demotic.