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Hungry Posted 19 years ago
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Small minority?

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g. Asians at my school were very much 01font 00in the minority02font 00. That is, there were very few Asians at my school .

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  • Asians at my school were very much 01font 00in the minority02font 00.
  • That is, there were very few Asians at my school .
  • Most of them are Europeans and Africans, only a few students are form Asia.
  • 02br 02br 00In this case , what it means is that 01font 00there were fewer Muslims than Hindus02font 00.
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0 Hi Hungry,02br
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00In this context, "small minority" simply means minority .01font00 Minority means any small group in society that is different from the rest because of their race, religion or political beliefs.02font00 ( CAMBRIDGE LEARNER'S DICTIONARY ) 02br
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00E.g. Asians at my school were very much
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0Suppose a society was 60% Hindu and 40% Muslim. The Muslims would be a minority, but I would not call them a "small minority" -- they would probably have a significant influence on the society. On the other hand, if the society was 95% Hindu and only 5% Muslim, the Muslims would be a01i00 small minority 02i00and in a more vulnerable position.0-
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1i00Minority02i00 sometimes means 01i00ethnic minority02i00 or 01i00national minority02i00. (One of our teachers teaching interpreting here prefers the phrase 01i00ethnic minority02i00.)02br
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00BTW., the muslims in China are called 01i00the H ui nationality02i00.
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11i10Minority12i10 sometimes means 11i10ethnic minority12i10 or 11i10national minority12i10. (One of our teachers teaching interpreting here prefers the phrase 11i10ethnic minority12i10.)12br
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00Hi,02p

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00Yes, there're many Muslims here in China. 02p

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00The majority of Chinese are the Hans. And nearly every Chinese has some Muslim friends as classmates, workmates, or neighbors, etc..02p

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00We get along quite well in my opinion.02p

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10Hi,12p

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10Yes, there're many Muslims here in China. 12p

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10The majority of Chinese are the Hans. And nearly every Chinese has some Muslim friends as classmates, workmates, or neighbors, etc..12p

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10We get along quite well in my opinion.12p

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0What's '01i00*** nationality02i00.', Maple?0-
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10What's '11i10*** nationality12i10.', Maple?12br
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10The star part is "***". It's just the transliteration of that Chinese character.02br
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00I don't know why it displayed that way. A bug? Masked off by the
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0Some kind of glitch-- I made it visible, I think, now, Maple.0-
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