minority status
Smaller group membership
Minority status is the condition of belonging to a group that is smaller in number or holds less power than the dominant group in a society.
The term appears in legal, academic, and political contexts discussing protected classes, civil rights, or representation: Her minority status qualified her for the scholarship program.
The "minority" may refer to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or other characteristics—sometimes even when the group isn't numerically smaller but historically marginalized.
- ethnicityShared cultural heritage group
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- raceCompetition of speed
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
stereotypes · protected classes · intersectionality · affirmative action · indigenous peoples · cultural heritage · voting rights · anti-discrimination laws · microaggressions · housing discrimination · empowerment · religion · income inequality · safe space · educational access · othered · representation · social stigma
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, national heritage, archive, monument
- equal rightsequal treatment, equal protection, equal pay, equal opportunity, discrimination law
- Scholarship RequirementsGPA, grades, financial need, merit, test scores
- birthrightancestry, bloodline, heredity, parentage, pedigree