Technically minorities are, obviously, those who are not, in some sense, in a majority in a particular area of a political system. In most usages minorities are thought of as having a common positive identity, rather than being united only in their...

Refers to a group in any society that can be identified usually by reason of religion, race, nationality or special needs. (See also...

Any small group in a society, usually an ethnic group. See also social...

A 2000 census in China revealed that 106 million people in that country, or about 8.41 percent of the total population, belonged to an ethnic minority. Thus, China is a multiethnic state. The areas populated by the fifty-five national minorities make...

A minority or subordinate group is a sociological group that does not constitute a politically dominant plurality of the total population of a given society. A sociological minority is not necessarily a numerical minority — it may include any group...

NFL Notes Minorities form group It will push for equality in league hiring practices Associated Press Thursday, March 13, 2003 For the first time, NFL minority coaches and executives will band together to fight for equal opportunities in a...

Kosovo is lived in by others besides dominant Albanians and minority Serbs HAMDIJE SEAPI, a local Gorani official, excuses himself to go to the funeral of a woman from a neighbouring village. He did not really know her, but since her village...

While international attention has focused on the protests for democracy in Myanmar's cities, a hidden war has decimated generations of the country's powerless ethnic minorities, who have faced brutality for decades.The Karen, the Shan and other minority groups who live along the Myanmar-Thai border have...

Nepal's former rebels threatened Sunday to quit an interim coalition government unless their demands were met, which include the creation of a republic and protection against attacks from rival groups.Communist rebel leader Prachanda told reporters his faction would leave the coalition government, formed as part...

For much of its history, American society separated whites from minorities. In the 1800s, for example, white settlers seeking land forced many Native Americans to move to reservations. Jim Crow laws required whites and blacks to use separate public...