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Explore the concept of minority groups within UK society. Learn how these groups are marginalized in aspects such as social status, education, employment, wealth, and political power. Topics covered include discrimination, disapproval from dominant groups, collective identity, and rules of group belonging. Discover different types of minorities such as ethnic, disability, age, sexual, gender, and religious minorities. Understand ethnicity as a group with different language, nationality, religion, culture, origin, and race. Gain insights into the presence of ethnic minorities due to colonization or migration, long-term residency, and citizenship in the state religion.
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Ethnicity and minority United Kingdom Michaela Žiklová, LS 2009-2010
Minority Minority is a group of people of a society that does not build a politically dominant voting majority. It is subnormal to the dominant group because of its social status, education, employment, wealth and political power.
Minority • Suffersdiscrimination • Disaproval of dominant group towardscharacteristics of a minority • Collective identity • Rules of belonging to a group • Singled out
Typesofminorities • Ethnic group • People with disabilities • “Age minorities” • Sexual minorities • Gender minority • Religious minorities
Ethnicity • Minority group • Differentlanguage, nationality, religion, culture, origin, race • The presence of ethnic minorities is the cause of colonization or migration • long-termpresence on the territory where it has lived • Are citizens of the state
