For the purposes of this debate, "color blind casting" refers to the practice of hiring actors for a movie with complete disregard of their racial identity. Most prominently this practice is what led to the casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in The Little Mermaid. the opposite of this is "color conscious casting" wherein actors are cast based on a conscious decision of their race, potentially with their identity being a part of the story.

Athletic Club de Bilbao is a Spanish team that is famous for having a policy that requires them to only recruit players coming from the Basque region of the country. This policy has been in place for over 100 years and has resulted in the club having a strong academy, but when needed are able to buy players that fulfill the criteria of the policy (i.e. players born in the Basque region that play for a different team). Partially due to this policy, Bilbao haven't won the league since 1984, but remain one of only three clubs that have never been relegated from the Spanish first division since it's inception in 1929.

Vocaloid is a voice changer software that uses specially recorded vocals of specific character's provided by the software. The software can change the stress of the pronunciations, add effects such as vibrato, or change the dynamics and tone of the voice. Some popular vocaloid characters are Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka.

AI Spring is an ongoing period of rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) that started in the late 2010s before gaining international prominence in late 2022 with the public release of ChatGPT. The opposite of this is AI winter, a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research

context: Under international law, a country must proves a direct environmental harm caused by another state to pursue legal action. Any indirect impact, regardless of the harm, often deemed lacking legal basis due to ambiguous connection to the country that caused environmental harm.

as of right now, India by law is a secular state with a predominantly Hindu demography. In recent times, there has been an increasing sentiment that India should be made into a fully Hindu State by law, refered to for the purposes of this debate as "The Hindustan Initiative." The parallel of this initiative is seen in the implementation of Sharia Law for Muslim Countries.