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Bluelight (web forum)
Bluelight (Bluelight.org) is an international online harm-reduction community where people who use psychoactive drugs exchange safer-use information. It has run as a non-profit since 1999.
Bogan
Bogan: Australian and New Zealand slang for an uncultured, boorish person, used of the white working-class poor; closest to British 'chav'. Origin unknown, spread from 1980s Melbourne, with variants cashed-up bogan and boganette.
Bohemian Club
The Bohemian Club is a private men-only San Francisco club founded in 1872 by journalists and artists, known for its 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove retreat in Sonoma County, the Cremation of Care ritual, and a membership of political and business elites.
Bolivian immigration to Argentina
Bolivian immigration to Argentina is a long-standing migration flow, historically seasonal harvest work in the northwest and now urban labor, with about 345,000 Bolivian-born residents at the 2010 census.
Bona Mugabe
Bona Mugabe (Bona Chikore), only daughter of Robert and Grace Mugabe, is a Zimbabwean businesswoman appointed to the 2017 Censorship Board and 2026 EmpowerBank deputy chair; her 2023 divorce exposed alleged assets including 21 farms and a Dubai mansion.
Bonham Carter family
The Bonham Carter family is an English political and Liberal family begun by MP John Bonham Carter, whose descendants include Violet Bonham Carter and actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Borjigin (Боржигин)
Borjigin (Боржигин) is the royal Mongol clan of Genghis Khan, also called the Golden Clan, ancestor-name Borjigidai; it ruled the Mongol Empire and Yuan dynasty, and remains Mongolia's most chosen surname.
Boro people
The Boro people, also referred to as Bodo or Kachari, are an ethnic community of Northeast India and the Brahmaputra valley, speaking the Tibeto-Burman language.
Bororo
Bororo (Boe): indigenous people of Mato Grosso, Brazil, speaking a Macro-Jê language; matrilineal, eight clans, circular villages around a men's house; studied by Lévi-Strauss.
Bosniaks (Бошњаци)
Bosniaks (Bošnjaci, Бошњаци), the South Slavic Muslim nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; official name under the 1995 Dayton Accord, formerly called Bosnian Muslims; speak Bosnian.
Bosnians
Bosnians are the inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina; the civic term Bosnian (Bosanac) differs from Bosniak (Bošnjak), the Muslim ethnic group, alongside Bosnian Serbs and Croats, censuses, and post-Dayton politics.
Boston Brahmin
Boston Brahmin, or First Families of Boston, describes Boston's traditional upper class, descendants of Puritan merchant families like the Adamses, Cabots, and Lowells, named by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in 1860.
Bourgeoisie
Bourgeoisie: originally medieval town dwellers (bourg, from Latin burgensis, 1007), later the European middle class; in Marxist theory the capitalist owners of the means of production, opposed to the proletariat.
Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone is Robert D. Putnam's 1995 Journal of Democracy article and 2000 Simon & Schuster book arguing that American civic engagement and social capital declined sharply after the 1960s, mainly through generational succession.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), begun as the 1860 Dashaway Club in Hartford, is a national youth nonprofit with 5,500+ Clubs serving 4 million youth ages 6-18 annually in academics, health, leadership, and workforce readiness.
Boys Town (organization)
Boys Town (Father Flanagan's Boys' Home) is a US nonprofit child and family care organization founded by Father Edward Flanagan in Omaha in 1917, known for the Teaching-Family Model residential care, its Nebraska village campus, and Boys Town National Research Hospital.
Boys' Brigade
The Boys' Brigade, founded in Glasgow on 4 October 1883 by William Alexander Smith, was the world's first voluntary uniformed youth movement. A Christian organisation for ages 5 to 18 with motto "Sure and Stedfast" and anchor emblem, it inspired Scouting and now operates in nearly 100 countries.
Brahmin (ब्राह्मण)
Brahmin (ब्राह्मण, Brahman): highest of the four Hindu varnas, historically priests, teachers, and scholars. About 65–70 million people in India and Nepal, over 1,800 endogamous subgroups divided into Pancha Gauda and Pancha Dravida.
Brazilians
Brazilians: people of Brazil, legally defined by jus soli nationality and statistically by self-declared color/race. Formed by Portuguese colonization, Atlantic slavery, and mass post-1822 immigration; parda plurality in the 2022 census.
Bretons
Bretons (Brezhoned) are the Celtic-derived people of Brittany, northwest France, descended partly from Brittonic migrants of the 5th-6th centuries; most combine strong Breton and French identity, and their language is declining.
Bristol Palin
Bristol Palin (born 1990, Wasilla, Alaska) is Sarah Palin's eldest daughter, announced pregnant at 17 during the 2008 McCain campaign; later a Dancing with the Stars contestant, memoirist, and teen abstinence advocate.
British African-Caribbean people
British African-Caribbean people, also called the Windrush generation, are Black Britons of Caribbean heritage. Defined by post-1948 migration under the British Nationality Act 1948, settlement in Brixton, Notting Hill Carnival, and the 2018 Windrush scandal.
British Americans
British Americans: US residents of English, Scottish, Welsh, or Scotch-Irish descent, from colonial settlers and later UK immigrants; 1938 census counted 40 million English, 14.2 million Scottish, 2.5 million Welsh ancestry; self-reporting understates the total.
British Chinese
British Chinese are UK residents of Chinese ethnicity, 445,646 people (0.7%) in England and Wales at the 2021 Census, descended from seamen, Hong Kong, Malaysian, and mainland Chinese migration waves, with the highest educational attainment of any census ethnic group.
British diaspora
British diaspora: Britons and people of British birth or nationality living outside the UK, also called British expatriates. At least 4.8 million British-born people lived abroad in 2024, mainly in Australia, Spain, the US, and Canada.
British Indians
British Indians: UK residents identifying as Indian or British Indian, 1,864,304 people (3.1% of England and Wales) at Census 2021; also called the Indian diaspora in Britain; history spans 18th-century servants, post-war waves, East African Asians, and 2023's 253,000 arrivals.
British Jews
British Jews: the United Kingdom's Jewish community, about 300,000 people, 0.5% of England and Wales, continuous since the 1655 readmission, concentrated in London and Manchester, represented by the Board of Deputies.
British Pakistanis
British Pakistanis, also known as Pakistani British people, are one of the UK's largest ethnic minorities, at 1.17 million people in 2011 and about 2% of England and Wales by 2018.
British people
British people: citizens and residents of the United Kingdom, legally British citizens under UK nationality law since the 1707 Acts of Union, and census-wise people identifying with a British national identity, distinct from English, Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish identities.
Britons in India
Britons in India: the British community in the Indian subcontinent, from East India Company employees (from 1600) through the Raj's administrators and nabobs to today's small expatriate population in cities like Bengaluru.