" The burakumin are one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidō and those of residents of Korean and Chinese descent.

Since the reunions in the UK and Australia in 1957, two generations of Christadelphians have grown up with little awareness of the existence of the minority " fellowships ", or awareness that the main group is called " Central " by the minority groups.

A third significant change, outside North America, has been the shrinking of the minority " fellowships " due to defection to the main group and natural causes.

It has two main groups: " straights ", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease ; " mixers ", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.

Immediately west from Ghana ( in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso ), Hausa is abruptly replaced by Dioula – Bambara as the main lingua-franca of what become predominantly Manding areas, and native Hausa populations plummet to a very small urban minority.

Although formally organised party politics plays no role in the States of Jersey assembly, members often vote together in two main blocs – a minority of members, holding broadly progressive views and critical of the Council of Ministers versus a majority of members, of conservative ideology, who support the Council of Ministers.

The government also holds minority shares in Ventspils Nafta oil transit company and the country's main telecom company Lattelecom but it plans to sell those.

The Politics of Sri Lanka reflect the historical and political differences between the two main ethnic groups, the majority Sinhala and the minority Tamils, who are concentrated in the north and east of the island.

Tajikistan's main ethnic group are the Tajiks, with minorities such as the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, and a small Russian minority.

Mary's main goal was to restore the Catholic faith to England ; however, the Marian Persecutions were unpopular with the Protestant majority of England, though naturally supported by the Catholic minority.

According to the agreements of the Yalta Conference, Lviv was integrated into the Ukrainian SSR, most of the Poles living in Lviv were transferred into Polish Recovered Territories and the city became the main centre of the western part of Soviet Ukraine, inhabited predominantly by Ukrainians with significant Russian minority.

Majority rule is often superseded by a de facto confederal decision making process where the minority ( the French-speakers ) enjoy important protections through specialty majorities ( 2 / 3 overall and majority in each of the 2 main communities ).

Starting in 1903 a series of splits in the party between two main leaders was escalating, the Bolsheviks ( meaning " majority ") led by Vladimir Lenin, and the Mensheviks ( meaning minority ) led by Julius Martov.

* In the early 20th century he was one of the minority of biologists who believed that natural selection was the main driving force of evolution, and that evolution occurred by small steps and not by saltation ( jumps ).

Korce district is considered one of two main minority regions of the country's south.

It has for some decades been the main centre of London's Polish minority.

The main feature of the organization and its site is to provide business consulting services to minority business owners.

The party receives its main electoral support from the Swedish speaking minority, which makes up about 5. 5 % of Finland's population.

As cultural scientist Roland Benedikter poses in his book on Sustainable Democratization of Iraq and in a series of essays, one main cause of the ongoing problems of pacification seems to consist in the fact that the socio-cultural dimensions of sustainability, including questions of ethnicity, religion and minority issues, have not been included appropriately in the overall democratization strategies so far.

Soviet threats to withdraw support were the main reason why reformists didn't expel the hardline Stalinist minority ( Taistoists, after Taisto Sinisalo.

One of the main duties of the Crown is to appoint as prime minister the individual most likely to maintain the confidence of the House of Commons ; this is usually the leader of the political party with a majority in that house, but when no party or coalition holds a majority ( referred to as a minority parliament ), or similar scenario, the governor general's judgement about the most suitable candidate for prime minister must be brought into play.

BBC television, and the other three main television channels are public service broadcasters who, as part of their license allowing them to operate, broadcast a variety of minority interest programming.

4. 7 % represent the main minority communities.

During the late 2nd century, the main ethnic change in the northern Black sea region was the immigration, from the Vistula valley in the North, of the Goths and accompanying Germanic tribes such as the Taifali and the Hasdingi, a branch of the Vandal people.

Claudius II was the first of a sequence of military emperors ( the so-called " Illyrian emperors " from their main ethnic origin ) who restored order in the empire in the late 3rd century.

Vasea of Cyprus are broadly divided into two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, who share many customs but maintain distinct identities based on ethnicity, religion, language, and close ties with their respective motherlands.

In 1949 during the French colonial rule, the law required the main ethnic groups, the Afar and the Somali to participate as separate electorates.

Since the Somalis were one main ethnic group, they could only elect a single candidate and the two main fractions of that tribe in Djibouti, the Issa and the Gadabuursi each strove to win.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

One of the main features of Gibraltar ’ s population is the diversity of their ethnic origins.

" The main characters are seven young Americans from different social and ethnic backgrounds, all living in Los Angeles.

Swahili is compulsory in primary education, and, along with English, serves as the main lingua franca between the various ethnic groups.

Modern DNA analysis ( see link ) has confirmed that various populations have contributed to the present-day gene pool of Morocco in addition to the main ethnic group which is the Amazighs / Berbers.

The main ethnic group taken out of Calabar as slaves were the Igbo, although they were not the main ethnicity in the area.

Political parties, however, tended to reflect the make up of the three main ethnic groups.

Such racial segregation has widely been thought to be the basis of growing ethnic tensions, a measurable deterioration in race relations in poorer areas, a deterioration of the standard of living and levels of education and employment among ethnic minorities in poorer areas as well as being a main precursor to recent race riots.

According to the 2002 census, Slovenia's main ethnic group are the Slovenes ( 83 %).

Trade contacts carried on by some ethnic peoples at the time was the main vehicle to spread the Old Malay language, as it was the communication device amongst the traders.

After a riot in Bristol in 1980, Powell asserted that the media were ignoring similar events in south London and Birmingham, and claimed: " Far less than the foreseeable New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic proportion would be sufficient to constitute a dominant political force in the United Kingdom able to extract from a government and the main parties terms calculated to render its influence still more impregnable.

The present state of knowledge about Kurdish allows, at least roughly, drawing the approximate borders of the areas where the main ethnic core of the speakers of the contemporary Kurdish dialects was formed.

Though the ethnic Lithuanian nobility were the main converts to Catholicism — both paganism and the Orthodox rite remained strong among the peasants — the king's conversion and its political implications created lasting repercussions for the history of both Lithuania and Poland.

Despite its nominal submission to the Merovingians, the ethnic make-up of new realm Aquitaine wasn ´ t Frankish, but Gallo-Roman north of the Garonne and main towns and Basque, especially south of the Garonne.