They disguise it as national interest, public service or local industry protection, but it is always the same protection of the privileges of a minority over the interest of the majority.

Majority influence refers to the majority trying to produce conformity on the minority, while minority influence is converting the majority to adopt the thinking of the minority group.

That process should be an interaction between the persons belonging to the minority themselves, between the minority and the State, and between the minority and the wider national society.

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Today, France s black minority is trying to organize itself along the lines of the Jewish minority.

Minority and majority influence combined There is evidence to suggest that it is possible for minority influence and majority influence to work together.

He explained that the existence of the minority was not denied, but rather that it was misleading to identify the Muslim minority as being only Turkish.

Christianity in Mongolia is a minority religion.

That would not be good for America or the world.

Minority influence, a form of social influence, takes place when a member of a minority group, like an individual, influences a majority to accept the minority's beliefs or behaviour.

Serge Moscovici and Nemeth (1974) argued that minority influence is effective as long as there is consistency over time and agreement among the members of the minority.

That is bad for capitalists and thus for capitalism.

Most members of the smaller Pontian Greek minority have emigrated to Greece.

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On the contrary, many Shia perceived Iraqiya as a thinly disguised effort to roll back Shia gains and restore Sunni rule. The Sunnis, after all, are no more secular than the Shia they simply have an interest in reducing the importance of a sectarian identity that dooms them to minority status.

People would understand that he was acting in the interest of the state as well as the country.

Then there is the issue of the Alevis, a religious minority linked to Sufism and Shi ism.

The bandits often target the wealthy minorities of foreign origin.

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Reversing this trend is not only in America s interest, but also in the world s interest.

New START is in the interest of disarmament and of Europe.

We all have a stake in her success.

The level of minority trust in the Provisional Institutions of Self Government for Kosovo remains low.

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The voices and views of the majority of the membership of the United Nations would be overshadowed by the positions of the few.

The right to intra minority contacts is inherent in the right of association.

Indeed, to do so would be in China s own interest as a key stake holder in Europe s economic stability.

Ukraine has its own potentially separatist region in Crimea, and the country s Russian minority numbers some 8.3 million (the largest minority in Europe).

In Israel, an Israeli Arab Palestinian minority has full citizenship, even if much remains to be done to afford it full social and economic equality.

And the hated, treasonous religious minority was not Muslim, but Jewish.

Instead, they seek to restore Sunni minority rule.

Iran defended its own interests and those of the Shia minority in the west of the country.

of the minority who did say they are curious, said they like Obama more.

2. Supports the demand of the Armenian minority for reunification with the Socialist Republic of Armenia

Finland and Germany were not asked to sign a minority rights treaty.

The history and current problems faced by the Assyrian minority of Iraq were raised.

The large majority of those minority public servants move to work every day.

The situation of the Muslim minority in Thrace had been further improved.

The new state must guarantee that any minorities it drags along say, Russians in the Baltic states, or Serbs in Kosovo will be decently treated.

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China s strategic interest in the line that separates India from a restive Tibet and the troublesome province of Xinjiang is straightforward.

Further EU enlargement is undoubtedly in Turkey s interest, and in Europe s, too.

But China s long term interest, and that of the world, requires that it get serious about domestic structural reform.