# Minorized

**URL:** https://ps.zoethical.org/t/minorized/2243
**Category:** 3TS Reader
**Tags:** concept
**Created:** [March 6, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://ps.zoethical.org/t/minorized/2243 "2019-03-06T12:45:32Z")
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#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://ps.zoethical.org/t/minorized/2243/1 "2019-03-06T12:45:32Z")

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## title: Minorized subtitle: Cyberfeminism

## About the Concept

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Minorized qualifies the agency of a specific culture, an opinion, a group of  
persons… within another dominant culture, the minorized culture can be one of  
a majority of people or preexisting the dominant culture, it will still be  
considered as a minority because of its lack of agency to reach the dominant  
communication models, and circles of power.

## Sources

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### The word minority strictly refers to quantities.

> No group of people should be considered minor, or lesser. We are all people,  
> and therefore, we are all equal. The word minority should strictly refer to  
> numbers, and data that can be compared in a cumulative manner.

The building of Nation-States around a territory, a political project and a  
language led to a formidable normalization process, resulting in the exclusion  
from the public sphere of many different cultures some of which were existing  
previously, or who are indispensable for the dominant culture to survive.

No one is born a “minority” and no culture is minor with reference to another  
one, each culture and each person are of equal importance, they only have  
different agencies, and different access to power, therefore some cultures are  
“minorized”. Employing a verb instead of a noun is important as it makes  
explicit that minorization is an action, a process, therefore it is evolutive;  
situation can change.

Karen Barad’s non representational diffractive approach to idendity helps us  
take in account the importance of each participant to a culture and the  
necessity to acknowledge the cumulative relation.

## Tree of Significance

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SYNONYM  
: minoritised, brought to the margins, unaccounted for, made invisible

ANTONYM  
: dominant, ruling, visible

HYPERNYM  
: ethics, politics, agency

HYPONYM  
: attention, relation