The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context. According to its common usage, the term minority group can simply be understood...

Ethnic minorities in China are the non-Han population in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The PRC officially recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups within...

religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group. Civil-rights movements often seek to...

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is an international human rights organisation, headquartered in London, with offices in Budapest and Kampala...

census). The Vietnamese terms for minority ethnic groups are người thiểu số and dân tộc ít người (minority groups). The total population of Vietnam was...

The term model minority refers to a minority group, defined by factors such as ethnicity, race, or religion, whose members are perceived to be achieving...

outnumbering the historically dominant group as a composite of diverse minority groups. Whether distinctions between groups are religious, ethnic, linguistic...

A visible minority (French: minorité visible) is defined by the Government of Canada as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian...

Hispanic or Latino, identifying as an ethnicity, which comprises the minority group in the nation. White Americans are the majority in every census-defined...

science, minoritarianism (or minorityism) is a neologism for a political structure or process in which a minority group of a population has a certain...

found particularly in central and Northern Greece. Other recognized minority groups are the Armenians numbering approximately 35,000, and the Jews (Sephardim...

The model minority myth is a sociological phenomenon that refers to the stereotype of, as well as data on, certain minority groups, particularly Asian...

religious minorities, such as protecting the minorities' culture and to promote harmony with the majority. Minority group Religious minorities in Greece...

effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups, especially by recruiting people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of racial...

that are described by different labels, the invisibility of white minority groups in official classifications, the acceptability of the terms used to...

Minority stress describes high levels of stress faced by members of stigmatized minority groups. It may be caused by a number of factors, including poor...

and Ireland. A considerable number of groups legally defined as white could still be considered ethnic minorities at the time, particularly those from...

Minority influence, a form of social influence, takes place when a member of a minority group influences the majority to accept the minority's beliefs...

The sense of "different cultural groups", and in American English "tribal, racial, cultural or national minority group" arises in the 1930s to 1940s, serving...

themselves as a minority group within a larger state, often due to military conquest, annexation or unification with another state. Ethnic group Ethnolinguistic...

definition of the glass cliff phenomenon to include racial and ethnic minority groups. The term was coined in 2005 by British professors Michelle K. Ryan...

largest minority group in Bulgaria, the second largest minority group in Iraq, Libya, North Macedonia, and Syria, and the third largest minority group in Kosovo...

(~1.2 billion). Besides the Han Chinese majority, 55 other ethnic (minority) groups are categorized in present-day China, numbering approximately 105 million...

A dominant minority, also called elite dominance, is a minority group that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite...

categories: Demographic definitions: 'Minority languages are those whose speakers are fewer than those of another group(s), within a defined area.' In highly...

genetic ancestry, common language, or both. The total number of national minority populations in Europe is estimated at 105 million people, or 14% of 770...

large majority of whom are located in Pakistan. Minority groups not falling within either large group mostly speak languages belonging to the Austroasiatic...

rights of minority groups Ethnic group, an ethnicity Minority influence, a form of social influence Minority language, a language spoken by a minority of the...

percentage of minority undergraduate enrollment based on IPEDS data (i.e. "institutions that enroll at least 25 percent of a specific minority group are designated...

citizen to vote on account of race or color" or membership in a language minority group. Other general provisions specifically outlaw literacy tests and similar...