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MINORITIES
JEWS
Ashkenazim
Central and Eastern Europe
(Germany, Northern France, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, and Belarus )
Spoke Yiddish- germanic language
Ashkenazic are dominant to all other ones
In Israel, Ashkenazic Jews still
dominate
leadership roles in public institutions
The public school curriculum over-represents Ashkenazic cultural achievements and history.
They are more likely to attend schools than other groups
the biggest group
Sephardim
Spanish diaspora and Iberia
(territory between Spain and Portugal)
Jews from this territories immigrated to
Amsterdam, North Africa, and the Middle East and some to America.
Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) was their language
Mizrahim/Oriental Jews
Came from Middle Eastern Ancestry, Iraq (Babylonia), Iran (Persia), and Yemen.
Today, most Mizrahi Jews live either in
Israel or the United States.
Mizrahi Jews faced marginalization upon their immigration to Israel at the hands of the politically and culturally dominant Ashkenazi Jews
ORTHODOX
ULTRA-
ORTHODOX
seek to separate themselves from the non-religious world.
more 'conservative
'
believe in a set of religious laws known as “
halachic law
”
They seek to balance religious beliefs with the secular world.
more opne-minded
Jewish people- nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah.
ethnoreligious
minority
ALAWITES
an ethnoreligious group -
originated from Shia Islam.
live between northern Lebanon and southern-central Turkey.
two distinct groups
-more conservative members of the community, who mainly live in rural regions
-and the middle-class,
Alawite beliefs have never been confirmed by their modern religious authorities
ignore Islamic sanitary practices, dietary restrictions, and religious rituals.
The syncretistic nature of the Alawite belief is further evident in its calendar, which is replete with festivals of Christian, Persian, and Muslim origin.
Historically- been persecuted for their beliefs, displaced from Lebanese urban centres to its surrounding mountains. -
Now- economic and social discrimination.
Lebanese Alawites are not active in providing resources to support the Assad regime’s war effort
PALESTINIAN
more than 6 million Palestinians
the West Bank (the region that is between m
odern-day Israel and Jordan
) and
the Gaza Strip.
an Arab ethno-national
minority
Judaism and Christianity+ Islam (Jerusalem)
Israel
continues to discriminate against Palestinian - in law, health care and access to water and food
COPTS
the biggest Christian denomination in the
Middle East, Sudan, Libya, Egypt.
Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria is Oriental Orthodox Christianity
About the diasporas, the biggest number of Copts settled in
U.S., Canada, and Australia
.
ethno-religious minority.
Copts in Egypt have a better educational attainment, a higher wealth index, and a stronger representation in white collar job types, however they have a
restricted presence in security services.
ARMENIANS
Turkey, Azerbeijan, Iraq, Georgia
Predominant religion –
Armenian Apostolic Church
(A branch of Eastern Orthodox Church)
-believes that Jesus is an embodiment of three divine forms: a father, a son and holy spirit (miaphysitism)
and Slavic Orthodox Church claims, that Christ has only one form (monophysitism)
ISSUES
Armenians in
Iraq
targeted by ISIS had to flee to Iraqi Kurdistan
Armenians of
Turkey
face hate speech, hate crimes as well as land and property deprivation
Unsolved conflict regarding Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijan
ISIS attacks on Christians
in Syria including Armenian minority
Indo-European people
ETHNIC GROUP???
YAZIDIS
I
raq, Turkey, and Syria but also in Armenia and Georgia.
-abroad, e.g. in
Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.
ISSUES
unemployment and low education level
or decades, Iraq’s curriculum in public schools did not recognise the history and culture of the Yazidis.
In 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant carried out a genocide of Yazidis in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq
Thousands of women and girls were abducted and forced into sexual slavery by ISIS, while thousands of Yazidi men were killed.
ETHNIC GROUP???
KURDS
Now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and south-western Armenia.
-The biggest number of Kurds live in
Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Germany
the largest non-Arab ethnic minority
Unsafe, illegal migration, Corruption, Repression, Poverty, ISIS attacks, Inability to protest, Gender Inequality
BAHA'IS
The Baha'i faith began when Islam arrived in Persia (modern-day Iran)
believe in- the oneness of mankind, the equality of men and women, the abolition of discrimination, and the harmony of science and religion,
monotheistic religion made up of various but equal human beings who work together for the betterment of society.
Iran, Yemen
discriminated, imprisoned
