Do you consider yourself a minority/majority?

[Quintessence]

Indulge a curiosity of mine, if you will. Do you identify as a minority within your state or nation under demographic attributes which often fall under legal protections (e.g., religion, race, and so forth)? Which ones, if you care to share? What does this status as a minority mean to you, if anything? If you don't identify with a minority, what does your status as a majority mean to you, if anything?

(in the poll, select "minority" if you identify with any demographic minority; "majority" if you identify with none)

 

[Badran]

Minority. A non-religious agnostic atheist in Egypt.

It means to me that i should either:

A) Be considerably more politically and socially active than average.

B) Move.

I'm used to the idea as even before becoming so i've always felt as a part of a minority, in a social sense. And while option A was once very appealing, and still is in part, i've decided i don't want to spend my entire life trying to change things that would take decades to change in a rather very optimistic calculation. Not because it's not worth it, rather because i feel i need to take care of myself first. If i could do both, i would, but i can't. If i decide to engage in option A, it won't be at this time of my life. That is, if i care at all about my happiness, which i do.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Gay and pagan- kinda minority yeah

 

[Me Myself]

Mst people in guayaquil are just plain poor. I am also mostly spanish and german blood, I dont think I have anything of cholo in me, and most people here have (again, people with money are less likely to have cholo blood)

Also I dont identify myself as catholic. More than. 95% of ecuador does, so there goes another minority thing. Aso I am a vegetarian. Also I dont like almost any music.

Blarg then again I started to name things that arent that "demographic"

 

[Willamena]

Just me. It doesn't get much more minority than that.

 

[Me Myself]

O sorry, I must admit I replied mainly to poll and title of thread.

I dont think (though I may be wrong) that there are any rules that force employment to mminorities here... Actually, I think I did heard something like that the other day...

Okay. i dont know . I wouldnt classify for those though. I doubt religion is one of such demographics considered, and my other mentioned minorities are the ones favoured, not discouraged,

 

[Badran]

O sorry, I must admit I replied mainly to poll and title of thread.

I dont think (though I may be wrong) that there are any rules that force employment to mminorities here... Actually, I think I did heard something like that the other day...

Okay. i dont know . I wouldnt classify for those though. I doubt religion is one of such demographics considered, and my other mentioned minorities are the ones favoured, not discouraged,

It looks like i might have misunderstood too.

I missed this part:

Indulge a curiosity of mine, if you will. Do you identify as a minority within your state or nation under demographic attributes which often fall under legal protections (e.g., religion, race, and so forth)? Which ones, if you care to share? What does this status as a minority mean to you, if anything? If you don't identify with a minority, what does your status as a majority mean to you, if anything?

(in the poll, select "minority" if you identify with any demographic minority; "majority" if you identify with none)

 

[dust1n]

Without specifications, I can only say I am in some minorities and some majorities.

 

[StarryNightshade]

A minority in a couple of ways.

I'm a gay, Buddhist-Hindu syncretist living in the Bible Belt.

Speaking of being a Buddhist-Hindu syncretist, I'm a minority in that regard too. The orthodox from both religions don't like that I mix the two.

 

[savagewind]

I was thinking along the same line of thought as Willamena. Minority. Viewing me from a political pov, majority for sure. I think I am in a class of one regarding my beliefs though. I voted majority.

 

[Breathe]

Minority.

I'm not one of the drug-using pissheads who gets into a fight outside a kebab shop at 3am because his 'bird' has been goin' off with his mate or some other malarky, or the racists, or the general proletariat scumbags who only think of themselves. In addition, I'm religious; a rare quality here.

I'm a majority in that I like a good moan.

 

[savagewind]

I think your kidding

 

[Sha'irullah]

I am an asexual Deistic mulatto in California . Unlike common theory I am not an Arab or Pakistani Sufi although I get mistaken for Chinese Buddhist which I have not the slightest clue as to why.
Despite my good looks (you know its true) I actually have only realized I am good looking a few weeks ago

 

[ZooGirl02]

Well, I am a chaste bisexual so I am definitely a minority.

 

[Vinayaka]

I am a minority within a minority. Being a white Hindu, I'm a minority by quite a bit (less than 1%) within my faith community, and we Hindu are about 1% in Canada. So I feel double whammy powerless.

 

[Sunstone]

Indulge a curiosity of mine, if you will. Do you identify as a minority within your state or nation under demographic attributes which often fall under legal protections (e.g., religion, race, and so forth)? Which ones, if you care to share? What does this status as a minority mean to you, if anything? If you don't identify with a minority, what does your status as a majority mean to you, if anything?

(in the poll, select "minority" if you identify with any demographic minority; "majority" if you identify with none)

Although I might be in the minority in some ways (e.g. I'm a non-theist in a society that is largely theist), for the most part I'm a privileged white male.

 

[Sunstone]

Minority. A non-religious agnostic atheist in Egypt.

It means to me that i should either:

A) Be considerably more politically and socially active than average.

B) Move.

I'm used to the idea as even before becoming so i've always felt as a part of a minority, in a social sense. And while option A was once very appealing, and still is in part, i've decided i don't want to spend my entire life trying to change things that would take decades to change in a rather very optimistic calculation. Not because it's not worth it, rather because i feel i need to take care of myself first. If i could do both, i would, but i can't. If i decide to engage in option A, it won't be at this time of my life. That is, if i care at all about my happiness, which i do.

You seem to have forgotten that you are also a minority in the sense that very few Egyptians these days still insist on paying their debts in camels and goats.

 

[Me Myself]

I am an asexual Deistic mulatto in California . Unlike common theory I am not an Arab or Pakistani Sufi although I get mistaken for Chinese Buddhist which I have not the slightest clue as to why.
Despite my good looks (you know its true) I actually have only realized I am good looking a few weeks ago

She is not nude!

 

[Sha'irullah]

She is not nude!

:biglaugh: The fact that anybody fell for one of my antics never ceases to amaze me.
I just crack me-self up sometimes

 

[LuisDantas]

Indulge a curiosity of mine, if you will. Do you identify as a minority within your state or nation under demographic attributes which often fall under legal protections (e.g., religion, race, and so forth)?

I suppose not, although I sure don't feel like I'm much of a part of any majority.

Which ones, if you care to share? What does this status as a minority mean to you, if anything? If you don't identify with a minority, what does your status as a majority mean to you, if anything?

I'm an atheist in a country that assigns a strong social stigma to them, which impacts my social and romantic life significantly. But I think my cultural choices (not being much of Brazilian, speaking a better English than Portuguese, being something of a shared-responsibility socialist in a country that is filled to the trim with social climbers) make me much more of a minority, although there is no way of getting acknowledged by law.

Above all, I few that I am part of an unacknowledged troubled group (not sure it should be considered a minority, though) in that I never had a family and it sure shows.