Minority

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Minority may refer to:

Politics

  • Minority government, formed when a political party does not have a majority of overall seats in parliament
  • Minority leader, in American politics, the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body

Society

  • Minor (law), legal category of people under the age of majority
    • Age of majority, the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law
    • Legal age, age at which a person may legally engage in a certain activity
  • Minority group, a category of people differentiated from the social majority (e.g. ethnic minority)
  • Sexual minority, a group whose sexual identity, orientation or practices differ from the majority of society

Music

  • "Minority" (Gigi Gryce song), a 1953 jazz standard
  • "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

  • Minority (philosophy), concept coined by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Minority
  • All pages with titles containing Minority
  • Majority (disambiguation)
  • Minority Party (disambiguation)
  • Minority Report (disambiguation)
  • 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
  • Minority interest, in business
  • Majority minority (American), where one or more racial/ethnic minorities make up a majority of population
  • Visible minority (Canadian), persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour
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