Word info

minority group

Noun

Meaning

minority group (plural minority groups)

a group that forms only a small part of the population, whether it be for ethnic or other reasons.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Norman Mailer

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. Carl Rowan

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended. Jack Germond

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them? Eriq La Salle

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater. Solomon Ortiz

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them. Edward Burns

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