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  2. Minority group - Wikipedia

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    The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context.According to its common usage, the term minority group can simply be understood in terms of demographic sizes within a population: i.e. a group in society with the least number of individuals, or less than half, is a "minority".

  3. Minority - Wikipedia

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    Minority rights, individual and collective 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 population; Minority-serving institution, a term in American higher education; Minority business enterprise, American business term

  4. Majority minority in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It is defined as a population with a collective majority of nationwide minorities, meaning a grouping of racial and ethnic groups (other than the national majority) that composes over 50% of the territorial population, regardless if one of those minority groups already attains a majority on its own. No single minority is yet the majority in any ...

  5. Underrepresented group - Wikipedia

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    Underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States include women [1] and some minorities.In the United States, women made up 50% of the college-educated workers in 2010, but only 28% of the science and engineering workers.

  6. Majority minority - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of "majority-minority" or "minority-majority", in relation to a whole country, is not well defined and may not be consistent between different users of the terms. A multitude of scholars have designated countries, or sovereign states, particularly in the developed or Western world , which are projected to obtain majority-minority ...

  7. 26 small business grants for minorities - AOL

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    Minority-owned businesses make up about half of all the new businesses created in the last decade. According to the 2022 Annual Business Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau, 1.2 million or 21 ...

  8. Discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, [1] such as race, gender, age, species, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation. [2]

  9. Minority religion - Wikipedia

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    A minority religion is a religion held by a minority of the population of state or which is otherwise politically marginalized. [1] [2] Minority religions may be subject to stigma or discrimination. An example of a stigma is using the term cult with its extremely negative connotations for certain new religious movements. [3]