Different groups on this earth are in similar ways pushed out, sucked in, ignored, excluded, included, treated as privileged or treated as inferior.

Minorities come in all sizes. From the human rights viewpoint it is the positions of the disadvantaged, the discriminated-against that causes concern. Within one social group, there may be minorities of the disabled, the elderly, the homosexuals – even the position of women can be understood better if they are seen as a minority.