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Legal Terms - ethnic minority
A group that is numerically smaller than the state's overall population but whose members are citizens of that state, have cultural, religious, or linguistic traits that set them apart from the general populace, and exhibit, if subtly, a sense of solidarity aimed at upholding their own social customs, religion, or language. Ethnic cleansing, or the attempted eradication of an ethnic minority by the troops of the majority within a state, may be considered a crime against humanity (see war crimes) that warrants humanitarian assistance.
A group that is numerically smaller than the state's overall population but whose members are citizens of that state, have cultural, religious, or linguistic traits that set them apart from the general populace, and exhibit, if subtly, a sense of solidarity aimed at upholding their own social customs, religion, or language. Ethnic cleansing, or the attempted eradication of an ethnic minority by the troops of the majority within a state, may be considered a crime against humanity (see war crimes) that warrants humanitarian assistance.
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