minority culture
Non-dominant cultural group
A minority culture is the shared customs, beliefs, and practices of a group that constitutes a smaller portion of a larger population—whether by ethnicity, religion, language, or other identity markers.
The term often arises in discussions of assimilation, preservation, and representation: The festival celebrates minority cultures from across the region.
Minority here refers to population size, not to lesser importance or value.
- ethnicOf a cultural group
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- old countryImmigrant's ancestral homeland
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
marginalized · indigenous · diaspora · immigrant · melting pot · subculture · identity · folk · ancestral · roots · home cooking · customs · mother tongue · language · enclave · community · safe space · preservation
- culturessubculture, counterculture, underground, bohemian, monoculture
- mixed marriagesintermarriage, mixed marriages, interracial couples, interfaith marriage, mixed heritage
minority, culture, minor, minors, minorities, cultural, culturally, cultures, cultured