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What people are really in the minority?

Asked by poisonedantidote (21675points) May 29th, 2013

I was just watching a video online, were Chinese people are referred to as a minority. In the context of the video, it is correct, there are fewer Chinese people round here than Spanish people, however, there are only about 40 million Spanish people, but well over a billion Chinese people.

It dawns on me, that calling one group or another a minority, in a local or national context, is kind of silly, in a world where you can get to the other side of the planet in less than a day.

So, who are the real minorities? If we look at all our demographics on a global scale, who are the real minorities?

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