Several speakers reported on the situation of the Egyptian Christian Copt minority.

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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The question was whether the children were victims of discrimination owing to their national minority status.

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

Let's hear now from those in the minority those who wouldn't turn.

Information was presented on the situation of the Muslim minority, mainly of Moroccan origin, in the Netherlands and concern was expressed about instances of increasing Islamophobia.

Christianity in Mongolia is a minority religion.

In 1996 the Kvens were granted minority status in Norway, and in 2005 the Kven language was recognized as a minority language in Norway.

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.

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.

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

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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.

ADALAH The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Shafa'amr

He's part of this ethnic minority called the Pontic Greeks.

The Government should also be encouraged and assisted to put in place measures to ensure the protection of civilians, especially displaced persons and minority groups, who do not enjoy clan protection and other forms of social support.

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

Mission to Thailand on the situation of the Muslim minority in southern Thailand

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.

We are launching with 18 keyboards. English is by far the minority.

He observed that a main cause of the Working Group's ineffectiveness had been the failure to observe or apply minimal standards or criteria as to the determination of the status of a minority, unlike the Human Rights Committee.

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.

I view the world now as a minority. Proudly as a minority.

We're going to be a minority majority country in one more generation.

And I said yes, about this village of singing people, singing minority.

In accordance with the Law On General Education, programme of primary education may be combined with a programme of minority education, including the native language of the respective ethnic minority, the content of studies that is related to the identity of the ethnic minority and integration in the Latvian society.

If Peña Nieto wins, he will have to deal with a strong opposition bloc in Congress, and in all likelihood with minority status for the PRI, at least in the lower house.

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.