English to afrikaans meaning of

minority

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "minderheid" verwys na 'n relatief klein groep mense binne 'n groter gemeenskap, samelewing of organisasie wat verskil van die meerderheid in terme van ras, godsdiens, etnisiteit, kultuur, taal, of enige ander ander kenmerk. In baie gevalle kan minderheidsgroepe ook sosiale, politieke of ekonomiese nadele of diskriminasie ervaar weens hul status as 'n minderheid.

Sentence Examples

  1. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority it is not even a minority then but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
  2. Whether or not I agree with the alliance, I must support the king, but I fear we will be in the minority.
  3. Raised in the catholic minority of England, I might have a better feeling of the terrible obstacles Jewish people have faced if I had lived at another time.
  4. His fine old crusted English would, no doubt, be relished by a minority, but it would be only by a minority.
  5. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.
  6. Not that they were all bad, or even most, but a significant minority of snipers had serious problems coming back from war.
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