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[missdaredevil]

What is *off-putting*?

Having qualities that make others not like you?

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[asterix]

It's a slang term for discouraging.

[missdaredevil]

People from this region of the world is "off-putting".
What else can that mean?

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[asterix]

I think there is more than that.
The piece you have given us refers to something else that you have not included.
Probably something like: The fact that XXX is still happening to People from this region of the world is "off-putting".

[CP]

It started out as the verb, to put off. If something puts people off, it affects them negatively somehow -- makes them disgusted, gives them fear, or something else. Whatever puts people off then might be called off-putting.
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