Minority may refer to:
Politics
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Minority government
A minority government, minority cabinet, minority administration, or a minority parliament is a government and cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in ...
, formed when a political party does not have a majority of overall seats in parliament
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Minority leader, in American politics, the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body
Society
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Minor (law)
In law, a minor is someone under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which demarcates an underage individual from legal adulthood. The age of majority depends upon Jurisdiction (area), jurisdiction and application, but it is commonly 18 ...
, legal category of people under the age of majority
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Age of majority
The age of majority is the threshold of legal adulthood as recognized or declared in law. It is the moment when a person ceases to be considered a minor (law), minor, and assumes legal control over their person, actions, and decisions, thus te ...
, the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law
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Legal age Legal age or codified age refers to age at which a person may legally engage in a certain activity, or purchase or possess a certain product or substance. Most frequently, this is the age of majority (also known as the "age of maturity"), the thresh ...
, age at which a person may legally engage in a certain activity
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Minority group
The term "minority group" has different meanings, depending on the context. According to common usage, it can be defined simply as a group in society with the least number of individuals, or less than half of a population. Usually a minority g ...
, a category of people differentiated from the social majority (e.g. ethnic minority)
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Sexual minority
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) comprise individuals whose sexual identity, sexual orientation, sexual behavior, or gender identity differ from the majority of the surrounding society. Sexual minorities include lesbians, gay men, bisexual peo ...
, a group whose sexual identity, orientation or practices differ from the majority of society
Music
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"Minority" (Gigi Gryce song), a 1953 jazz standard
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"Minority" (Green Day song), a 2000 punk rock song
* "Minority", a song by the Subhumans from their 1983 album ''
The Day the Country Died''
Other uses
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Minority (philosophy), concept coined by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
See also
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Majority (disambiguation)
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Minority Party (disambiguation) Minority Party may refer to:
* Minority Party (Denmark)
* Ethnic Minority Party of New Zealand
* National Minorities Party, India
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Minority Report (disambiguation)
Minority Report may refer to:
* Minority Report (Poor Law), published by the UK Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905–09
* "Minority Report", a 1949 science fiction short story by Theodore Sturgeon
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Minority rights
Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group.
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, individual and collective rights of minority groups
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Ethnic group
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, re ...
, an ethnicity
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Minority influence
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 or behavior. This occurs when a small group or an individual acts as an agent of social change b ...
, a form of social influence
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Minority language
A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. Such people are termed linguistic minorities or language minorities. With a total number of 196 sovereign states recognized internationally (as of 2019) and ...
, a language spoken by a minority of the population
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Minority-serving institution
In the higher education system of the United States, minority-serving institution (MSI) is a descriptive term for universities and colleges that enroll a significant percentage of students from minority groups.
Definition
The term MSI is define ...
, a term in American higher education
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Minority business enterprise
Minority business enterprise (MBE) is an American designation for businesses which are at least 51% owned, operated and controlled on a daily basis by one or more (in combination) American citizens of the following ethnic minority and/or gender (e ...
, American business term
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Minority interest
In accounting, minority interest (or non-controlling interest) is the portion of a subsidiary corporation's stock that is not owned by the parent corporation. The magnitude of the minority interest in the subsidiary company is generally less than ...
, in business
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Majority minority
A majority-minority or minority-majority area is a term used to refer to a subdivision in which one or more racial, ethnic, and/or religious minorities (relative to the whole country's population) make up a majority of the local population.
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(American), where one or more racial/ethnic minorities make up a majority of population
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Visible minority
In Canada, a visible minority () is defined by the Government of Canada as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour". The term is used primarily as a demographic category by Statistics Canada ...
(Canadian), persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour
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