minority cultures
Less dominant groups
Minority cultures are the traditions, practices, languages, and ways of life belonging to groups that are smaller in number or hold less social power than the dominant culture in a society.
The term encompasses ethnic, religious, linguistic, and indigenous communities whose cultural expressions may differ significantly from mainstream norms.
Discussion of minority cultures often involves questions of preservation, representation, and the tension between assimilation and maintaining distinct identity.
The festival celebrates minority cultures from across the region.
- endangered languageSpeech risking complete extinction
- mother languageLanguage learned from birth
- native tongueLanguage acquired from infancy
- race relationsSocial interactions across ethnicities
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
dialect · folk art · ethnicity · traditional music · migration · heritage · multilingualism · handicrafts · folk medicine · customs · rituals · code-switching · indigenous movements · land rights · diaspora · storytelling · tribal elders · passing down
- culturemusic taste, beliefs, food preferences, custom, festivals
- YunnanKunming, Dali, Shangri-La, rice noodles, tea plantations
- Guangxikarst, rice terraces, terraced fields, Hmong, star anise
- Guizhou
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