Minority

With all the talk of superiority, supremacy and discrimination; let us study the whole history of who the boss is here.

In a company it is the CEO, in a state it is the Governor, in the nation it is the President who has the final word on decisions. Some of them are elected and some work their way up to a position of power but they are what the majority rules to be supreme.

A majority is the greater part, or more than half, of the total. It is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set’s elements.

“Majority” can be used to specify the voting requirement, as in a “majority vote”.

A plurality is not necessarily a majority as the largest subset considered may consist of less than half the set’s elements. This can occur when there are three or more possible choices.

Now as I recall from the history books our forefathers who came over to this continent were in the minority to those who had already arrived and staked their claim on the land.

For whatever reasons of escaping religious persecution or the promise of riches, the boats kept arriving with Caucasian Europeans with their own culture invading another’s land. Unfortunately for the natives, the new immigrants brought weapons of mass destruction.

The majority was becoming the minority.

A minority are fewer than the majority of positions of social power in a society. The differentiation can be based on one or more observable human characteristics, including: ethnicity, race, religion, caste, gender, wealth, health or sexual orientation.

In the social sciences, the term “minority” is used to describe social power relations between dominant and subordinate groups, rather than simply indicating demographic variation within a population. Any given individual may simultaneously occupy both a majority identity and a minority identity, depending on the intersection of different social categories (e.g. around age, religion, gender, and so on).

Members of minority groups are prone to different treatment in the countries and societies in which they live. The discrimination may be directly based on an individual’s perceived membership of a minority group, without consideration of that individual’s personal achievement.

It may also occur indirectly by social structures that are not equally accessible to all.

And so the minority became the majority by brute force to decimate the existing culture, as any invading army will do.

Minority is the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole. Minority is a smaller party or group opposed to a majority, as in voting or other action. Minority is a group in society distinguished from, and less dominant than, the more numerous majority. Minority is a racial, ethnic, religious, or social subdivision of a society that is subordinate to the dominant group in political, financial, or social power without regard to the size of these groups: legislation aimed at providing equal rights for minorities. Minority is the period of being under the legal age of full responsibility.

Once a majority is declared, supremacy can be established over the minority.

Supremacy is the state or condition of being superior to all others in authority, power, or status. Supremacy is ascendancy, predominance, primacy, dominion, hegemony, authority, mastery, control, power, rule, sovereignty, influence, dominance, and superiority.

The victors reap the spoils. They make the laws. They take the riches. They enslave.

Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Discrimination is prejudice, bias, bigotry, intolerance, narrow-mindedness, unfairness, inequity, favoritism, one-sidedness, partisanship; sexism, chauvinism, misogyny, racism, racialism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, ageism, classism, and formation of caste.

No matter the majority or the minority, discrimination will run rampant. It is a self-affirming emotion.

Families are formed and extended, churches and beliefs are modified to increase the congregation, social societies and clubs and organizations will form and create missions and visions for members to follow, political affiliations will be funded, elected, and established to lead the majority and the minority and yet there must be a hierocracy system of authority.

What of the ‘one’?

The one must decide how to interact with surroundings and opinions and in some cases condescending judgments.

It is up to you to be your own majority. And remember you are your own minority.