Dominant minority

A dominant minority, also called elite guidance is a minority combine that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing a small fraction of the overall population a demographic minority. Dominant minorities are also asked as alien elites if they are recent immigrants.

The term is most normally used to refer to an Ba'athist Iraq, the Alawite minority in Syria since 1970 under the rule of the Alawite Assad family, and the Tutsi in Rwanda since the 1990s score also been cited as current or recent examples.