Questions tagged [minorities]
Questions about categories of people with a relative disadvantage compared to those in dominant social groups.
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Can intentional foreign accent in a negative context be considered as xenophobia? [closed]
Today the Romanian president intentionally pronounced the name of its opposition party with Hungarian intonation and pronunciation. The message of his speech was that this opposition party sold ...
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Is the French public opinion more favorable to Muslims than to Jews?
It's been suggested in an answer to a related question that the French public opinion is more favorable to Muslims than to Jews (due in part to the larger presence of Muslims in France). I for one ...
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What is the purpose of democracy?
In many modern political debates democracy is often considered an unalloyed virtue: things are good because they are democratic. Things the people have voted for are good because they represent the &...
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How did the Asians vote in the "double digit" Asian-minority areas in the Brexit referendum?
I found two competing narratives on the Asian minorities vote in the Brexit referendum. The simple overall picture:
Two thirds (67%) of those describing themselves as Asian voted to remain
And ...
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Is there a more in-depth explanation why Asians in (Greater) London voted to leave the EU, breaking with the national trend for ethnic minorities?
A ward-level BBC analysis of the 2016 EU referendum pointed out these patterns of Asian vote in London, breaking with the national trend:
White populations were generally more pro-Leave, and ethnic ...
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Does Ludovic Orban (the current Romanian PM) speak Hungarian?
According to Wikipedia, Ludovic Orban, the current PM of Romania (and who apparently has no relationship with Hungary's Viktor Orban), is of mixed Hungarian and Romanian ethnicity. Does Ludovic Orban ...
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Why is/was the National Liberal Party of Romania opposed to Catholic & Hungarian school when they support a German-minority president?
According to the only snippet on this I found in English, from March 20, 2018:
The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) has admitted on Monday the PNL and PMP notification regarding the draft law ...
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Did Palestinians have an opportunity to assimilate into Kuwait society and culture before the Gulf War of 1990 to 1991?
Approximately 400,000 Palestinians lived in Kuwait before the Gulf War of 1990-1991. Did they have an opportunity to assimilate into Kuwait society and culture?
That's simply a "yes" or "no" question,...
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What policies are used to prevent segregation in education today?
According to Wikipedia, desegregation busing is:
Desegregation busing in the United States (also known as simply busing) is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools so as to ...
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Legal restrictions on minority languages in media and the web
The draft law on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the national language adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on April 25 obliges all print media to have the Ukrainian version.
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What is the rationale for Democrats attempting to exempt African-Americans from this Ohio abortion ban?
According to USA Today the Democratic Party attempted to pass a slew of amendments to Ohio Senate Bill 23, which would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Most of them were pretty ...
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What word do the Rohingya people use to refer to the Rakhine State?
Minorities often have place-names for their ancestral/home lands that may differ from those provided by the language of the majority population. For instance, Scottish Gaelic would refer to Scotland ...
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Did any Muslim majority countries express an official position about the treatment of Muslims in China?
Members of the Arab League are well known for their boycott of Israel over their treatment of the Palestinians. They likewise frequently issue official statements whenever Muslims are mistreated in ...
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Why is there so little support for the Minority SafePack in Western European countries, despite them supposedly being pro-multiculturalism?
In many countries in Western Europe, there is often a rhetoric about how much multiculturalism and diversity is valued, and in the meantime countries in Eastern Europe are often labeled as being too ...
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Why does the US usually send African-American ambassadors to African countries?
A tweet by Graeme Wood said:
Randomly selected example: observe how many African-American U.S.
ambassadors are sent to "black" countries, how few to Europe:
http://www.blackpast.org/african-...
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