Dominant minority: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Undid revision 1293447927 by 2601:240:DA80:5840:5D44:AB28:D0D4:53BE (talk) The sources say otherwise. |
Undid revision 1293871578 by 2600:2B00:8276:E700:887C:DA26:7217:25B3 (talk) |
||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
== Africa == |
== Africa == |
||
A notable example is that of [[South Africa]] during the [[apartheid]] regime, where [[white South African]]s, more specifically [[Afrikaner]]s, wielded predominant control of the country, despite never composing more than 22 percent of the population.<ref name="Mayne">{{cite book|last=Mayne|first=Alan|title=From Politics Past to Politics Future: An Integrated Analysis of Current and Emergent Paradigms|date=1999|page=52|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=978-0-275-96151-0}}</ref> [[Americo-Liberians|African-American-descended nationals]] in [[Liberia]], [[white Zimbabweans]] in [[Rhodesia]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-05-17 |title=The 'secretive sect' in charge of Syria |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18084964 |access-date=2023-09-23}}</ref> and the [[Tutsi]] in [[Rwanda]] since the 1990s also have been cited as current or recent examples.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-04-07 |title=Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26875506 |access-date=2023-09-23}}</ref> |
A notable example is that of [[South Africa]] during the [[apartheid]] regime, where [[white South African]]s, more specifically [[Afrikaner]]s, wielded predominant control of the country, despite never composing more than 22 percent of the population.<ref name="Mayne">{{cite book|last=Mayne|first=Alan|title=From Politics Past to Politics Future: An Integrated Analysis of Current and Emergent Paradigms|date=1999|page=52|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=978-0-275-96151-0}}</ref> [[Americo-Liberians|African-American-descended nationals]] in [[Liberia]], [[white Zimbabweans]] in [[Rhodesia]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-05-17 |title=The 'secretive sect' in charge of Syria |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18084964 |access-date=2023-09-23}}</ref> and the [[Tutsi]] in [[Rwanda]] since the 1990s also have been cited as current or recent examples.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-04-07 |title=Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26875506 |access-date=2023-09-23}}</ref> |
||
== United States == |
|||
As of 2020, the [[American Jews|American Jewish population]] is estimated to be approximately 7.5 million people, accounting for 2.4% of the [[Demographics_of_the_United_States|United States' population]].<ref name="PEW">{{Cite web |last=Mitchell |first=Travis |date=2021-05-11 |title=1. The size of the U.S. Jewish population |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/the-size-of-the-u-s-jewish-population/ |access-date=2025-05-19|website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US}}</ref> Jews have been demographically overrepresented to a significant degree among the wealthiest and most politically powerful Americans.<ref name="JQR">{{cite journal |last=Hollinger |first=David A. |date=2004 |title=Rich, Powerful, and Smart: Jewish Overrepresentation Should Be Explained Instead of Avoided or Mystified. |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1455593 |journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review |volume=94 |issue=4 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |pages=595-602 |access-date=2025-05-19}}</ref> Further, 30 of the 100 wealthiest Americans in 2010 were found to be Jews in a demographic breakdown of the [[Forbes 400|''Forbes'' 400]] by ''[[Business Insider]]'',<ref name="BI">{{cite web |last=Nolan |first=Hamilton |title=The Forbes 400: A Demographic Breakdown |website=Business Insider |date=2010-09-23 |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/the-forbes-400-a-demographic-breakdown-2010-9 | access-date=2025-05-19}}</ref> and at least 139 of the ''Forbes'' 400 in 2009 were Jews.<ref name="JTA">{{cite web |last=Berkman |first=Jacob |title=At least 139 of the Forbes 400 are Jewish |website=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=2009-10-05 |url=https://www.jta.org/2009/10/05/united-states/at-least-139-of-the-forbes-400-are-jewish | access-date=2025-05-19}}</ref> However, historic overrepresentation of Jews among student enrollment and leadership positions at [[Ivy League]] universities has been fading in recent years, reportedly on account of policies concerning [[Diversity, equity, and inclusion|DEI]].<ref>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-vanishing</ref> |
|||
==See also== |
==See also== |
||
Revision as of 10:16, 5 June 2025
 | This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (February 2022) |
A dominant minority, also called elite dominance, is a minority group that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing a small fraction of the overall population (a demographic minority). The term is most commonly used to refer to an ethnic group that is defined along racial, national, religious, cultural or tribal lines and that holds a disproportionate amount of power and wealth compared to the rest of the population.
In contrast, minority rule, of less permanency and with no basis in race or ethnicity, is often seen when a political party holds a majority in political structures and decisions, but receiving less than the majority of votes in an election.
Africa
A notable example is that of South Africa during the apartheid regime, where white South Africans, more specifically Afrikaners, wielded predominant control of the country, despite never composing more than 22 percent of the population.[1] African-American-descended nationals in Liberia, white Zimbabweans in Rhodesia,[2] and the Tutsi in Rwanda since the 1990s also have been cited as current or recent examples.[3]
See also
- Colonialism
- Elitism
- Herrenvolk democracy
- Middleman minority
- Minoritarianism
- Minority influence
- Model minority
- Neocolonialism
- Pseudo-secularism
- Tyranny of the majority
- World on Fire, a book that introduces the concept of "market-dominant minority"
- Global majority
Footnotes
- ^ Mayne, Alan (1999). From Politics Past to Politics Future: An Integrated Analysis of Current and Emergent Paradigms. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-275-96151-0.
- ^ "The 'secretive sect' in charge of Syria". BBC News. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter". BBC News. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
References
- Barzilai, Gad. Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003). ISBN 978-0-472-03079-8
- Chua, Amy. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Doubleday, New York, 2003). ISBN 0-385-50302-4
- Gibson, Richard. African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles against White Minority Rule (Institute of Race Relations: Oxford University Press, London, 1972). ISBN 0-19-218402-4
- Haviland, William. Cultural Anthropology. (Vermont: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993). p. 250-252. ISBN 0-15-508550-6.
- Johnson, Howard and Watson, Karl (eds.). The White Minority in the Caribbean (Wiener Publishing, Princeton, NJ, 1998). ISBN 976-8123-10-9, ISBN 1-55876-161-6
- Russell, Margo and Martin. Afrikaners of the Kalahari: White Minority in a Black State ( Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979). ISBN 0-521-21897-7