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Being a minority is a description of political power as much as sheer demographic statistics. There are cases where minorities are the majority, too. Women make
by da_chicken 5y ago
Being a minority is a description of political power as much as sheer demographic statistics. There are cases where minorities are the majority, too. Women make up 51% of the US population, but in virtually every other sense they are a minority. In South Africa during apartheid, the black population could be described as a minority in spite of their actual demographic proportions (over 75%).
- usaar333 5y agoTrue, but that's a very different definition. Also, IMO, a bit of a confused one that leads to confusion. e.g. apartheid is often referred to as "white minority rule" - that is the minority oppressing the majority. Similarly, this gets a little subjective. It's not clear to me in modern liberal democracies that women are a minority politically, because they do in fact have the ability to set policy equally to men (even if they happen to be less present in the political ranks)