Characteristics of minorities

The population whose interest or characteristics are different from the majority

are called minorities.The intolerance for the characteristics or interests of these

minorities comes to harm them in different ways. One of these ways is call genocide. 

Genocide mean the destruction of a group of people because their religion, race or

nationality, one example is the genocide of Jews. These genocides were caused

by a fascist government that hated their religion and what it represented. Other way

is the expulsion. 

Expulsion is the act of forcing someone to leave a place. An example of expulsion

could be when the current president of the U.S want to remove 11 million

undocumented inmigrants. 

Segregation is the action of setting apart or separation of people or things from others

or from the main body or group. An example of segregation are the indigenous groups

which are separated from the society.

Assimilation is the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage

are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.