Minority status is relative to national context

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

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Clarifies that minority status is contextual and shifts with geographic location.

Related

• Minority status is context-relative rather than an intrinsic trait (similarity 0.94)