Minority

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Minority may refer to:

Law

• The state or period before a person comes of legal age, majority or adulthood. In that sense see: Minor (law), Age of majority, Legal age, Infancy and Majority.

Politics

• Minority government
• Minority group (sub-group of the total population). See also Dominant minority
• Minority leader
• Minority Party (disambiguation)
• Minority rights
• Opposition (politics), the political-official minority in a democratically-organised entity
• Two-party system

Anthropology and language

• Ethnic group
• Minority language

Economy

• Minority business enterprise
• Minority interest, in business, ownership of less than 50% of stock

Sociology

• Minority influence
• Sexual minority
• Visible minority

Statistics

• Majority minority district
• Minority-majority state

Education

• Minority-serving institution

Philosophy

• Minority (philosophy), concept coined by philosopher Gilles Deleuze

Music

• "Minority" (Gigi Gryce song), a 1953 jazz standard
• "Minority" (Green Day song), a 2000 punk rock song
• "Minority", a song by the English anarcho-punk band the Subhumans from their 1983 album The Day the Country Died

See also

• Majority