More Examples of Dominant Minorities
Other examples of dominant minorities that have been said to exist, or to have existed in the past include:
- White South Africans in South Africa)
- White Zimbabweans in Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe)
- East-African Asians in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi
- Mulatto Elite in Haiti and Jamaica
- Criollos or White People in Mexico and Latin America
- Chinese in Indonesia
- Chinese in Malaysia
- Chinese in Thailand
- Normans in England from 1066
- Anglo-Irish (i.e. Irish-born people of English descent, mainly of Protestant confession) in Ireland before independence of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom, the so-called Protestant Ascendancy
- Russians in Soviet Central Asia (for current status see Russians in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan Russians and Russian diaspora)
- Forward caste in India and Nepal
- Tutsis in Rwanda and Burundi
- Huwala in the Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf
- Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt
- Greeks in Alexandrian Empire
- Greeks in Seleucid Empire
- Franco-Seychellois in Seychelles
- Arab Alawite Muslims in Syria
- Arab Sunni Muslims in Saddam Hussein-era Iraq
- Arab Sunni Muslims in Bahrain
- Whites in mestizo and mulatto majority countries of Latin America
- Whites and mestizos in Amerindian majority countries of Latin America
- Mestizos and Chinese in the Philippines
- Mestiços and Muslims in East Timor
- Chorfa, Andalusis and Moriscos in Morocco
- Americo-Liberians in Liberia
- Afro-Guyanese in Guyana during the PNC dictatorships of Forbes Burnham and Desmond Hoyte from 1964 to 1992
- Walloons in Belgium before World War II
- Swedish-speaking Finns before the Finland's language strife
- Maronites in Lebanon
- Mongols in Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate, Ilkhanate, and Mongol Empire
- Austrians in the Lombard-Venetian Kingdom in northern Italy from 1815 to 1866.
- Serbs in Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Austrians in Austrian Empire
- Pieds-Noirs in French Algeria
- Japanese in Japanese Empire
- Vietnamese Catholics in South Vietnam
- Indian Muslims in Islamic Empires in India during the Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent
Market-dominant minority are cases of situations where a minority group has had disproportionate representation in economically powerful positions and has achieved higher incomes than the majority community.
The most commonly cited examples of minorities that may have had economic power and influence in a society but lacked political dominance and often suffered as a result are the South Asians in East Africa, and Han Chinese in Indonesia and Malaysia.
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