Dominant minority

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:More footnotes Template:Short description {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} A dominant minority, also called elite dominance, is a minority group that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing a small fraction of the overall population (a demographic minority). The term is most commonly used to refer to an ethnic group that is defined along racial, national, religious, cultural or tribal lines and that holds a disproportionate amount of power and wealth compared to the rest of the population.

In contrast, minority rule, of less permanency and with no basis in race or ethnicity, is often seen when a political party holds a majority in political structures and decisions, but receiving less than the majority of votes in an election.

AfricaEdit

A notable example is that of South Africa during the apartheid regime, where white South Africans, more specifically Afrikaners, wielded predominant control of the country, despite never composing more than 22 percent of the population.<ref name="Mayne">Template:Cite book</ref> African-American-descended nationals in Liberia, white Zimbabweans in Rhodesia,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and the Tutsi in Rwanda since the 1990s also have been cited as current or recent examples.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

United StatesEdit

As of 2020, the American Jewish population is estimated to be approximately 7.5 million people, accounting for 2.4% of the United States' population.<ref name="PEW">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Jews have been demographically overrepresented to a significant degree among the wealthiest and most politically powerful Americans.<ref name="JQR">Template:Cite journal</ref> Further, 30 of the 100 wealthiest Americans in 2010 were found to be Jews in a demographic breakdown of the Forbes 400 by Business Insider,<ref name="BI">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and at least 139 of the Forbes 400 in 2009 were Jews.<ref name="JTA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, historic overrepresentation of Jews among student enrollment and leadership positions at Ivy League universities has been fading in recent years, reportedly on account of policies concerning DEI.<ref>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-vanishing</ref>

See alsoEdit

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FootnotesEdit

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ReferencesEdit

  • Barzilai, Gad. Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003). Template:ISBN
  • Chua, Amy. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Doubleday, New York, 2003). Template:ISBN
  • Gibson, Richard. African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles against White Minority Rule (Institute of Race Relations: Oxford University Press, London, 1972). Template:ISBN
  • Haviland, William. Cultural Anthropology. (Vermont: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993). p. 250-252. Template:ISBN.
  • Johnson, Howard and Watson, Karl (eds.). The White Minority in the Caribbean (Wiener Publishing, Princeton, NJ, 1998). Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN
  • Russell, Margo and Martin. Afrikaners of the Kalahari: White Minority in a Black State ( Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979). Template:ISBN

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