Long divided culturally between majority Finnish speakers and minority Swedish speakers, Finns found common ground in opposition to the policy of Russian integration begun in 1899.

Moreover, many subscribe to the notion that without appropriately recognizing that the people of Quebec are culturally distinct, Quebec will remain chronically disadvantaged in favour of the English-Canadian majority.

Taiwan is densely-populated and culturally diverse, including a majority of benshengren ( including the Holo and Hakka peoples ), a powerful faction ( around 15 %) waishengren who arrived with Chiang Kai-shek in the middle of the 20th century and the minority of aboriginal peoples.

Some are quite integrated into the majority hispanicized Mestizo cultures of the nations in which they reside, while others continue a more traditional culturally distinct life, often speaking one of the Maya languages as a primary language.

Jola have been the majority of the population in the region since at least 1500, and culturally share much with the people of Guinea-Bissau.

Although they brought their surnames with them, they nevertheless became culturally amalgamated quite rapidly by the German majority.

In contrast, Cambridge has been associated with a large number of Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs and the majority of Britain's most culturally significant scientists, including Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton.

The Harkis by contrast, were mostly culturally Algerian, speaking limited French, and largely indistinguishable from the majority of ordinary Algerians except for their service in French auxiliary military units.

He was a vocal supporter of the Croat and Slovene population in Istria, which was the majority there, but culturally and politically dominated by Italians from the coastal towns.

Since the 1960's a majority of scientists have come to understand the concept of race as a social construct mapped on to phenotypes in different culturally determined ways, and not as a biological concept.

The majority of Indonesians do not have family names as the West would understand them but, such names as are given, are geographically and culturally specific.

They have been culturally distinct from the majority Orthodox Christian Slavic Macedonian community for centuries, and are linguistically distinct from the larger Muslim ethnic groups in Macedonia: the Albanians and Turks.

Through " ethnogenesis ", by the 19th century the English-speaking and French-speaking Métis had become culturally quite similar, moving closer to each other in opposition to the British-Canadian majority.

Because of these migrations, both of the cities became an linguistically and culturally Cantonese society, due to the vast majority of migrants being Cantonese, the culture of Cantonese began merging with western culture.

The population is culturally mixed, with the majority Iban interacting well with the Malay and Chinese in almost all spheres of activity since the pre-colonial days.

Although Hinduism is now a minority religion in the country, some of its beliefs still pervade the national psyche ; it is socially and culturally ingrained in Filipinos, most of whom are either part of the Christian majority ( Roman Catholic and Protestant ), or part of a significant Muslim minority.

In 1957 Nixon delivered a significant opinion that a majority of Senators had the power to adopt new rules at the beginning of each new Congress, and that any rules laid down by previous Congresses were not binding.

Before World War II, Croatia's industry was not significant, with the vast majority of the people employed in agriculture.

The majority of traditional Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras, during a period known as the " Hundred Schools of Thought ", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.

The majority of non-avian dinosaurs became extinct during that time .< ref > The boundary event was severe with a significant amount of variability in the rate of extinction between and among different clades.

The majority of citizens ( 56 %) believe that membership of the EU has benefited their country, though a significant minority ( 31 %) believe that their country has not benefited.

Generally, however, the vast majority of stock used today is " normal " ( visible spectrum ) color, although " normal " black and white also commands a significant minority percentage.

Danish and Norwegian settlement made enough of an impact to leave significant traces in the English language ; many fundamental words in modern English are derived from Old Norse, though of the 100 most used words in English the vast majority are Old English in origin.

In the area of constitutional reform, undoubtedly the most significant event of Holt's time as Prime Minister was the 1967 referendum in which an overwhelming majority of Australians voted in favour of giving the Commonwealth power to legislate specifically for indigenous Australians and to include them in the Commonwealth census.

A poll by Gallup showed that a " significant majority " of Muslim Indonesians define the term to mean " sacrificing one's life for the sake of Islam / God / a just cause " or " fighting against the opponents of Islam ".

The majority of the country's population belongs to various Bantu sub-groups, with a significant number of Nilotes.

They did not encounter any significant resistance save for some bridges destroyed and some land mines, since the majority of the Luxembourgish Volunteer Corps stayed in their barracks.

He was also consolidating the majority of significant left-wing groups around his person.

Prior to 1800 the majority of Maltese were engaged in agriculture or fishing, although there was significant trade.

The banking sector is highly concentrated, with four banks holding a significant majority market share:

It is believed that the overwhelming majority of mutations have no significant effect on an organism's fitness.

Others were put to work in mines in northern Nicaragua, but the great majority were sent as slaves to Panama and Peru, for significant profit to the new landed aristocracy.

Alemán's PLC won a majority of the overall mayoral races, but the FSLN fared considerably better in larger urban areas, winning a significant number of departmental capitals, including Managua.

This process may have also created the present orbits of a significant fraction of the Jupiter-family comets, although the majority of such comets are thought to have originated in the scattered disc.

Plea bargaining is a significant part of the criminal justice system in the United States ; the vast majority ( roughly 90 %) of criminal cases in the United States are settled by plea bargain rather than by a jury trial.

Still, partial preterism is not the majority view among American denominations founded after the 16th century and meets with significant vocal opposition, especially by those denominations which espouse Dispensationalism.

However, a significant majority of Stevenson's reported cases of reincarnation originated in Eastern societies, where dominant religions often permit the concept of reincarnation.

Mahayana Buddhism is the first religion in Singapore though not representing a majority, with significant numbers following Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism or no religion at all.

Nonetheless the majority of the population remained Christian, allowing for a significant pool of Turcopoles to be raised in the Crusader armies.

The use of the system means that MPs are sometimes elected from individual constituencies with a plurality ( receiving more votes than any other candidate, but not an absolute majority of 50 percent plus one vote ), due to three or more candidates receiving a significant share of the vote.

Because the majority of cases are very low-profile and receive little or no media attention and because whistleblowers who do report significant misconduct are usually put in some form of danger or persecution, the idea of seeking fame and glory may be less commonly believed.