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	GMANews.TV - GO told to name dominant minority party - Nation - Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs - ...
		The official though hinted that the Lakas-CMD could be declared as the dominant majority party because it has the biggest number of officials elected during the May 2004 polls.
		The dominant majority and minority parties are determined based on the number of elected officials from the previous elections as well as the number of members vying for elective positions in 2007.
		Aside from Lakas-CMD, other political parties contending for the dominant minority position are Kampi and the National People’s Coalition, which are identified with the administration while UNO he said is not recognized as a political party because they registered as a coalition.
	www.gmanews.tv /story/34472/Opposition-told-to-name-dominant-minority-party (594 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dominant minority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A dominant minority is a group that has overwhelming political, economic or cultural dominance in a country or region despite representing a small fraction of the overall population (a demographic minority).
		Other examples of dominant minorities that have been said to have existed in the past are Germans in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russians in Soviet Central Asia and the Tutsis in Rwanda and Burundi.
		Minority groups that maintain a strong sense of pride in their own language and culture or who have not internalized mixed feelings about their own culture and the dominant group tend not to experience school failure.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dominant-minority (1520 words)

	Minority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In a socio-economic context, the term "minority" tends to refer to groups of people who, according to a particular set of criteria, are fewer in population than other ethnic groups.
		The term sexual minority is sometimes used for groups (gay men and lesbians, transgendered individuals, etc.) whose sexual orientation or gender identity differs from the perceived norm.
		The term minority is unavoidably associated with the political movements which push for assimilation, in which the minority group sheds its distinctive traits and is absorbed into the dominant group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minorities (760 words)

	Dominant minority
		Dominant minority is a demographic minority that has overwhelming political, economic or cultural dominance in a country or region.
		White minority rule was a term given to countries or territories in which whites, comprising the minority of inhabitants, held power over (i.e.
		It emphasizes minority market dominance in a world marred by the globalization of capital and the rise of multinational corporations (as a global dominant minority).
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/d/do/dominant_minority.html (259 words)

	Anonymization.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This article needs to do a better job explaining the difference between the minority and majority that EVERYONE agrees with (the numerical ones) and the ones that are politically correct.
		Many object to the usage of of the term minority to refer to someone in the numerical majority, and it needs to be better clarified as such.
		In recent decades the term minority has taken on a new meaning among the politically correct, being used to refer to a group with which they perceive to be worthy of special preferential treatment.
	67.18.35.242 /-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Minority (998 words)

	AllRefer.com - minority (International Law) - Encyclopedia
		minority, in international law, population group with a characteristic culture and sense of identity occupying a subordinate political status.
		Religious minorities were known from ancient times, but ethnic minorities did not become an issue in European politics until the rise of nationalism in the 19th cent.
		The minority group sought to establish its own culture as a national identity, either by incorporating with a nearby country that shared its identity or, if none existed, by seceding and forming its own nation.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/minority.html (623 words)

	Minority Report
		Globalization has been very good indeed for that minority, opening up great new opportunities for them to practice their entrepreneurial skills and allowing them to network more easily with the overseas-Chinese commercial classes in other countries.
		This is the downside of being a market-dominant minority.
		Chua’s own people are Hakka and she is practicing a form of market-dominant minority camouflage.) She seems to have mastered even the trickiest minority-within-minority and minority-versus-minority cases, like that of the Ashkenazim in Israel or the Kikuyu of Kenya.
	www.amconmag.com /05_19_03/review.html (947 words)

	Dominant minority - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Other examples of dominant minorities that have been said to have existed in the past are Germans in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russians in Soviet Central Asia, the Tutsis in Rwanda and Burundi, and the Sunnis in Iraq.
		It emphasizes minority market dominance in a world economy marked by increasing globalization.
		Dominant minority, White minority rule, More examples of dominant minorities, References, Articles to be merged, Social groups and Social inequality.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/White_minority_rule (551 words)

	England
		Much of the existing Anglo-Saxon infrastructure survived William's conquest, and the Norman immigrants formed only a minority (albeit a dominant minority) in English society.
		This is overwhelmingly due to its dominance in the Union.
		These are often used by official bodies to communicate with the relevant sections of the community, particularly in big cities, but this occurs on an "as needed" basis rather than as the result of specific legislative ordinances.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/en/england.html (2300 words)

	The Role of Collective Memory in the Dominant-Minority Group Struggle in America: Bewilderment of Theresa Malloy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In a later work Linethal and Engelhardt (1996) describe the proposed Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum’s exhibit of the Enola Gay’s mission, its aftermath, the bomb’s role in ending the war, and the new era it inaugurated.
		I have become a nationally recognized scholar in the area of minority groups with two major publications of late in addition to giving twenty scholarly presentations at regional and national professional meetings.
		Minority Voices contains 18 original articles in which professional sociologists describe their family history.
	ds5.cgpublisher.com /proposals/6/index_html (564 words)

	Yale Law Journal \| Archive
		Under certain conditions, the presence of an economically dominant minority will introduce a fundamental tension between markets and democracy.
		This will be the case whenever the economically dominant minority is also market-dominant—meaning that it tends to be economically dominant under market conditions.
		The sobering thrust of the model is that in many developing countries, simultaneous marketization and democratization will likely lead to one of three outcomes: (i) an ethnically fueled antimarket backlash; (ii) actions directed at eliminating the market dominant minority; or (iii) a retreat from democracy.
	www.yale.edu /yalelj/108/108-1ab1.html (302 words)

	Minoritarianism - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The little-used term is most often applied disparagingly to democracies in which a minority is able to block legislative changes through supermajority threshold requirements.
		For example, if a 2/3 vote in favor is required to enact a new law, a minority of greater than 1/3 is said to have "minoritarian" powers.
		A common criticism of consensus decision-making is that it can lead to a situation wherein a minority can block the will of the majority.
	psychcentral.com /wiki/Minoritarianism (370 words)

	MULTICULTURAL DIVERSITY: ETHNIC & MINORITY GROUPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Purpose of this Course: To assist the student in understanding the concepts of ethnic, racial, religious, and status group minority elements within a Western and Non-Western framework and to develop the ability to critically analyze economic, political, historical, psychological, and sociological factors which enhance or inhibit participation in society.
		To acquire an understanding of social change and minority groups; and the interaction between society and minority groups (5a, 5b, 5c, 6a, 6b).
		To understand how a minority group’s problems can be analyzed through the application of various sociological theories (5a, 5c, 6a, 6b).
	www.lourdes.edu /Outline/Sociology/soc304.htm (461 words)

	Wartime Images Peacetime Wound - Sandra Lambertus
		The investigation shows how the values and perspectives of local communities, media, and law enforcement became overshadowed by 'outsiders' during the course of the event and the serious effects of the media coverage on specific audiences and ultimately, Canadian society.
		The study culminates with an assessment of the structural elements that contributed to the damaging media portrayals: media bias, competition, cooperation, empowerment, and cultural misperceptions.
		Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds opens new avenues for studies of minorities in the news and for the study of news media in general.
	www.englishbooks.it /BUS/0802085512/Wartime_Images_Peacetime_Wounds.htm (224 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "World On Fire" by Amy Chua
		No matter how politically incorrect it is to talk about, her book makes clear that minority market domination is a reality in much of the world, one that's tied up in many ways with smoldering group hatreds and explosions of mass slaughter, and one that's made worse by Western policies.
		Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, is a careful, precise writer, and she makes it very clear that she's not blaming prosperous ethnic groups for violence directed against them, or blaming capitalism alone for fomenting genocide.
		She argues that when economic liberalization and democracy are rapidly introduced to countries with market-dominant minorities, the two forces necessarily come into conflict.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2003/01/13/democracy (939 words)

	Minorities Other Than Blacks: Term Paper Section at AcademicTermPapers.com
		The review suggests that socioeconomic and pragmatic considerations are paramount in driving language shift, although dominant culture values which stress the ideal of cultural assimilation and by implication, the superiority of the dominant language encourage shift, both directly and indirectly.
		This comparative analysis of one of the nation's biggest majority groups (Irish-Americans) and one of the country's smallest minorities (Jewish-Americans) considers the similarity and differences in their respective experiences in terms of the timing and context of arrival, cultural traditions, discrimination, society mobility, and ethnic identity.
		An examination of the image of Asians as a model minority which considers the reasons for the development of this "myth." Argues that Asian "invisibility" and stereotypes of Asian "submissiveness" have contributed to the myth.
	www.academictermpapers.com /catpages/catl22c.html (4926 words)

	Soares - Learning about Prejudice and Discrimination (I-TESL-J)
		Dominant, minority - these words are often used when distinguishing among groups in societies.
		A minority group is a smaller group than the dominant group.
		A child may be punished "for his friendliness to minority groups..."; for this reason, he may "acquire...aversion to members of the out-group" (517).
	iteslj.org /Lessons/Soares-Prejudice.html (1450 words)

	02/02/03 - Will U.S. Retain Its “Market-Dominant Majority”?
		Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, is herself the progeny of a market dominant minority: the Chinese of the Philippines.
		It's definitely nicer to belong to the minority than to the majority in these countries.
		One reason: we are one of the fairly small number of lucky countries with "market dominant majorities." We can have our cake (capitalism) and eat it too (democracy) because our majority group is economically quite competent.
	www.vdare.com /sailer/market_dominant.htm (1070 words)

	Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If language is not merely a means of communicating information about the weather or any other subject but a very important means of establishing and maintaining relationship with other people (Trudgill, P (1987) then one would think that Nigeria need have a common language to be recognized.
		This study examines the effect of some dominant languages on minority languages in Nigeria and the consequences of this on Sustainable National Development.
		Like Brenzinger, we shall consider the frame of indicating language displacement with reference to certain criteria such as the language cum place of encounter, the social, regional, global settings of languages in questions and the out come of these on language process generally and Sustainable National Development.
	www.ohiou.edu /alta/adeni2.htm (232 words)

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