Are we moving from a Mediocristan world, wherein most people contribute a little, to Extremistan, wherein an ever-diminishing minority uses the lever of ever-improving technology to move the world to their liking, while more and more are excluded from jobs and must fight and scrap to get by with endless dead-end, barely-livable gigs?
For example, in Quebec, the Ashkenazic majority has adopted English, while the Sephardic minority uses French as its primary language.
Patients who consented, but did not participate in the baseline interview were more likely to have received anti-anxiety medications (OR: 2.58, p < 0.01), and were more likely to be minorities using US census categories (OR: 2.02, p < 0.01).
The minority, he says, will always be insecure especially if that minority used to rule India.
In retaliation, members of the minority use what few tools they have to obstruct the majority.
And there is a modernized minority used to making independent decisions, whether in career, attitude or lifestyle.
"Being the minority used to mean that you shared a lot of interests, like a minority shareholder," says Tom Davis, a former Republican congressman.
Many Sunni Arabs saw his sentence as evidence that Shia and Kurdish officials are persecuting their once-dominant minority, using their influence over the judiciary.
Criticizing the Republican bill as a sham, a hoax, bad medicine and a risky scheme that would "privatize" Medicare, the Democratic minority used a variety of parliamentary and procedural tactics to delay the work of the House.
Mr. Bakarinov estimated that 160,000 Berliners bought boxes by the Aug. 3 switchover -- indicating that only a minority used the end-of-analog transition as an excuse to sign up for cable or satellite.
For their part, most conservative immigration restrictionists rightly recognize that it is wrong to deprive innocent gun-owners of their right to possess handguns merely because a small minority use them to commit crimes.
