Since the countries involved include giants like China and India, even a minority amounts to a very large number of people.
Alongside that, Didi made investments in its three allies: putting $100 million in Lyft, and contributing undisclosed minority amounts to Ola's $500 million round last year, and Grab's most recent $350 million raise one year ago.
Today's attempts to erode the voting power of minorities amount to "the same face with a different mask," said John Lewis, the long-serving Georgia congressman and civil rights icon, at a recent Senate hearing on the future of voting rights in America.
He does want to extend the writ of Georgian government to the whole of its territory, including the breakaway South Ossetia region; but he has pledged to deal generously and inclusively with non-Georgian minorities, amounting to at least 30% of the population.
Abigail Fisher, a white woman who was rejected for admission, sued, claiming that the consideration of the race of minority applicants amounted to discrimination against her.
Judge Shira A. Scheindlin did not order an end to the practice, but said the city's targeting of minority groups amounted to racial profiling.
There have been organised attacks on the minority that amounted to crimes against humanity committed by ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, whom Suu Kyi is keen to remind us are suffering too – from fear, not mass slaughter.
The team's owners last week received $240 million from the sale of minority stakes that amount to 48 percent of the franchise.
But school voucher programs don't offer the full cost of tuition at a private school, and therefore these programs are essentially useless to the neediest (often minority) families, and amount to a subsidy for middle-class (usually white) families.
While it would be naive to suggest that banks have the ability to produce a form of financial "minority report", the amount of data they can access in tackling fraud and other financial crime is immense.
