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Minority/Majority

Koselleck 100

Till van Rahden – To this day, the conceptual couple of majority and minority is often viewed as a harmless way of identifying an arithmetic relationship to make sense of cultural diversity. A conceptual history suggests, however, that the juxtaposition between a majority and one or several minorities is both a recent neologism and an essentially contested conceptual couple.