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A correspondent in India asks, respecting race what is the opposite of "minority", a really good Q thought I, and when I presented it to Laverne, who is far brighter than me, she didn't have a ready answer either. A quick check with Thesaurus.com and Google wasn't of much help but then I am lazy and besides spend too much time screen sucking
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'Cause majority is minority.
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Majority would work for a vote situation (the majority voted for Dumbledore) but in terms of race sounds a bit odd. Perhaps the phrase predominant race?
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Looking for term specific to race or the like as Zed muses above
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Minority isn't a term specific to race. Why worry that majority isn't?
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I thougth of the idiomatic expression "silent majority". Nothing to do with ethnic groups, but meaning those who live life either in peace or sorrow, but not making any scandal about it.
Also interpretable as a majority that stays silent when minorities are ill used, deported or massacred.
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Minority isn't a term specific to race. Why worry that majority isn't? Fal not exactly worried, just thought there might be a better term
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Too specific; a more general term might apply to blacks in another venue for instance where whites are in the minority
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