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 (government), cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or Coalition government, coalition of parties do ...
, 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 threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law
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Legal age, age at which a person may legally engage in a certain activity
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Minority group
The term 'minority group' has different usages depending on the context. According to its common usage, a minority group can simply be understood in terms of demographic sizes within a population: i.e. a group in society with the least number o ...
, a category of people differentiated from the social majority (e.g. ethnic minority)
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Sexual minority, 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)
Minority (french: minorité) is a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their books ''Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature'' (1975), ''A Thousand Plateaus'' (1980), and elsewhere. In these texts, they criticize th ...
, concept coined by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
See also
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Majority (disambiguation)
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Minority Party (disambiguation)
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Minority Report (disambiguation)
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Minority rights, individual and collective rights of minority groups
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Ethnic group
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...
, an ethnicity
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Minority influence, 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 (abbreviated MSI) is a descriptive term for universities and colleges that enroll a significant percentage of students from minority groups.
Definition
The term M ...
, 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 business
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Majority minority (American), where one or more racial/ethnic minorities make up a majority of population
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List of majority minority United States congressional districts
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Visible minority
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, in connect ...
(Canadian), persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour
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