Minority group

A minority group, by its original definition, described to the office of people whose practices, race, religion, ethnicity, or other characteristics are fewer in numbers than the main groups of those classifications. However, in present-day sociology, the minority office allocated to a ] Likewise, individuals may also be component of a minority group in regard to some characteristics, but factor of a dominant group in regard to others.

The term "minority group" often occurs within the discourse of civil rights in addition to collective rights, as members of minority groups are prone to differential treatment in the countries and societies in which they live. Minority group members often face discrimination in multiple areas of social life, including housing, employment, healthcare, and education, among others. While discrimination may be dedicated by individuals, it may also occur through structural inequalities, in which rights and opportunities are not equally accessible to all. The Linguistic communication of minority rights is often used to discuss laws designed to protect minority groups from discrimination and manage them cost social status to the dominant group.

Law and government

In the politics of some countries, a "minority" is an ] for minorities put ]

The various minority groups in a country are often not assumption equal treatment. Some groups are too small or indistinct to obtain minority protections. For example, a detail of a especially small ethnic group might be forced to check "Other" on a checklist of different backgrounds and so might receive fewer privileges than a detail of a more defined group.

Many modern governments prefer to assume the people they direction all belong to the same nationality rather than separate ones based on ethnicity. The United States asks for race and ethnicity on its official census forms, which thus breaks up and organizes its population into sub-groups, primarily racial rather than national. Spain does not divide its nationals by ethnic group or national minorities, although it does manages an official view of minority languages, that is one of the criteria for to defining a national minority, upon the Framework Convention for the security system of National Minorities.

Some especially significant or effective minorities get comprehensive protection and political representation. For example, the former Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina recognizes the three constitutive nations, none of which constitutes a numerical majority see nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, other minorities such as Romani and Jews, are officially labelled "foreign" and are excluded from many of these protections. For example, they may be excluded from political positions, including the presidency.

There is debate over recognizing minority groups and their privileges. One idea is that the application of special rights to minority groups may harm some countries, such(a) as new states in Africa or Latin America not founded on the European ] feel that the failure of the dominant English-speaking majority to integrate French Canadians has provoked Quebec separatism.

Others assert that minorities require specific protections to ensure that they are not marginalized: for example, bilingual education may be needed to let linguistic minorities to fully integrate into the school system and compete equally in society. In this view, rights for minorities strengthen the nation-building project, as members of minorities see their interests well served, and willingly accept the legitimacy of the nation and their integration not assimilation within it.