Questions tagged [minorities]
Questions about categories of people with a relative disadvantage compared to those in dominant social groups.
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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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What caused the rise of antisemitism at US university campuses? [closed]
After the heinous massacre perpetrated by Hamas against Israelis on October 7, 2023, we saw a huge rise in attacks against Jews on US university campuses. Many student groups sided with Hamas ...
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Why should Modi (or India for that matter) be concerned about minority rights?
A few weeks ago, Barack Obama said that:
the issue of the “protection of the Muslim minority in a majority-Hindu India” would be worth raising in Modi’s meeting with the US president, Joe Biden. ...
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How does the CCP insure fair ethnic representation within the CCP?
How does the CCP insure fair ethnic representation within the CCP?
Representation at the Party Congress itself will not mean much in
terms of actual authority. It remains to be seen how many and ...
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What caused a drastic reduction in the population of ethnic Tatars in the Russian Federation?
I compared the Russian census of 2010 to the recently released census of 2020/2021.
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2010,#n by pop
2010,population
2021,population
2010..2021,pop change
2010..2021change, %
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How many Ukrainian language schools were still open in Crimea in 2021 compared to 2013?
Russia often complains about the treatment of Russian minorities abroad, especially in Ukraine. But how did they treat the Ukrainian minority themselves?
E.g. how many Ukrainian language schools are ...
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Do Muslim countries other than Pakistan officially protest when there are anti-Muslim riots in India? More so than "the West"?
As a companion to this question are there examples of official protests (or calls for investigations etc.) by Muslim countries other than Pakistan when anti-Muslim riots happen in India?
Most ...
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Do people in countries besides the US react negatively to "militarized police"?
A 2018 PNAS study concludes that
militarized “special weapons and tactics” (SWAT) teams are more often deployed in communities of color, and—contrary to claims by police administrators—provide no ...
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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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How can a direct democracy, like Rojava, protect minorities from pure majoritarianism?
In representative democracy, often people can use the monopoly of violence for a good cause by enforcing protection of minorities that are enshrined in constitutions that can be violently imposed. ...
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Can Armenian Americans plausibly have a noticeable impact on the 2022 US midterm elections?
Turkish and Azerbaijani officials accused Pelosi of visiting Armenia and making statements there that would gather domestic support from the diaspora in view of the upcoming US elections. E.g. the MFA ...
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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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Why is Biden losing the support of non-white American Democrats?
Recently, I've read an article on Reuters (emphasis mine):
However, a growing number of Americans disapprove of Biden's leadership on the economy, gun violence and taxation, with the biggest decline ...
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What keeps a democracy from disestablishing itself?
Assume a democracy where every person can vote. Now, if there was a party to say: "If we win, next time only all men are allowed to vote plus all women with dark hair." Let's assume that ...
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Why do Pakistani and Bangladeshi Hindus frequently move across the borders but Indian Dalit Hindus don't?
There is a notion in the media that because of persecution, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Afghan Hindu/Sikh minorities migrate to India to seek Indian citizenship.
Why Pakistani Hindus leave their ...
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