However, Jainism's marginalization in India can best be ascribed to sociopolitical factors.
And in that question lies another: Is expertise destined for marginalization in the new universe of "American Idol" and Epinions.com?
The simple tropes offered so far about elections, territorial unity and ending marginalization in the north are insufficient.
The 12 million Roma, the Gypsies of Europe, are trying to unite at last to fight what they see as their increasing marginalization in Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.
They are, by and large, an odd bunch, predictably geeky in their enthusiasms ("Star Trek" action figures, 1970s pornography) and resigned to their marginalization in a culture where the cutting edge of marketing — and music — has mostly gone digital.
The role of Korea in the development of Buddhist art and thought in Japan, and therefore in the formation of Japanese culture itself, emerges from decades of habitual marginalization in this beautiful exhibition.
At times, Mr. Rollins's concerns have focused on jazz itself and what he said was its marginalization in the larger culture — a factor, he said, that accounted for the lack of invitations he receives to play benefits.
Facing marginalization in Abe's shadow, Hashimoto seems to have decided to take charge of his own destiny — by transforming himself into the international poster-boy apologist for the sexual abuse of women by military personnel.
As a storyteller, Mr. Young is preternaturally drawn to marginalization; in nearly all the movies he shoots, including "Restless City," now getting a national rollout, an outsider contends with an unkind or indifferent world.
Their marginalization — in a chamber obsessed with party control and seniority — is all the more acute vis-à-vis the 87 Republican freshmen, whose sheer numbers and ideological intensity make them the most visible novices in over a decade.
If you were irritated by Rosalind's marginalization in Mr. Branagh's often sullen rendering, know that she is front and center here, played with a perfect, jokey faux masculinity by Joey Parsons (who, it should be said, is a woman pretending to be a man, not a man playing a woman pretending to be a man as in Shakespeare's day).
