Minority status is context-relative rather than an intrinsic trait

Evidence

Another identity can be one’s status as a member of a minority group. While a Nigerian American is a minority in the USA and may be subjected to some discrimination or relative privileging, in Nigeria this person is obviously not a minority. Instead it may be their ethnic status as Yoruba or Hausa that helps or hinders them. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1176

Categorization

• XREF: Previews the structural-vs-numerical minority distinction that later race scholarship (and the definitions vault uses) depends on. — connects to: Minority status is relative to national context; Apparent racial inconsistency can reflect adherence to divergent contextual norms — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1889; Perceived last-place racial status decouples from objective socioeconomic disadvantage. — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 59

Broader Connections

• Minority status is relative to national context #corroborates (0.97)
• Apparent racial inconsistency can reflect adherence to divergent contextual norms #qualifies (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1889