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Diversity Immigrant Visa
Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV), or green card lottery: annual U.S. program run by the State Department under the Immigration Act of 1990, awarding 50,000 visas by lottery to natives of low-admission countries with a high school education or qualifying work experience.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), related to EDI and DEIB, is an organizational framework of policies and programs to increase representation, ensure fair treatment, and foster belonging in institutions.
Dogon people
The Dogon are a West African people of central Mali's Bandiagara Escarpment, known for cliff villages, masked dama funerals, and the contested Griaule ethnography and Sirius claims, reexamined by van Beek in 1991.
Doikayt (דאָקייט)
Doikayt (דאָקייט), Yiddish for "hereness", a Jewish diasporist political concept opposing territorial Zionism; central to the Jewish Labour Bund's program of socialism, Yiddish culture, and diaspora autonomy.
Dom people
The Dom (Nawar, Ghajar) are Middle Eastern peripatetic communities of Indian origin, speaking Domari, an endangered Indo-Aryan language distinct from Romani; roughly 5 million live across Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Egypt.
Dominion Society of Canada
The Dominion Society of Canada is an Ottawa-based advocacy group founded in July 2025 by Daniel Tyrie. It promotes Canadian nationalism and a policy of "remigration."
Dönmeh
Dönmeh (Doenmeh), Ottoman sect of Sabbatai Zevi's followers who outwardly converted to Islam in 1666 and 1683 while keeping Sabbatean faith secretly; split into Yakubi, Karakaş, and Kapancı, centered in Salonica, moved to Turkey in 1923.
Dörbet
The Dörbet (Дөрвөд), also spelled Derbet, are an Oirat Mongol tribe of the 15th to 18th century Four Oirat confederation, today Mongolia's second largest Mongol subgroup.
Dore Strauch
Dore Strauch (also spelled Dora), Berlin-born settler who with Dr. Friedrich Ritter colonized uninhabited Floreana, Galápagos, in 1929; survivor of the Galápagos Affair and author of the 1936 memoir Satan Came to Eden.
Dorothy Wiggins
Dorothy Katz Wiggins (born August 14, 1925), American centenarian social media influencer, socialite, and former stylist on Instagram and TikTok; still plays tennis at 100, tossed the 2025 US Open coin, and is distinct from the Georgia pediatrician Dorothy P. Wiggins.
Double-barrelled name
A double-barrelled name combines two surnames into one, hyphenated or spaced. Formed by marriage, inheritance, or parental choice; historically British upper-class, now widespread in Britain, Ireland, and former British-settled countries, distinct from Spanish two-surname systems.
Doug Batchelor
Doug Batchelor (born 1957) is an American Seventh-day Adventist evangelist, author of The Richest Caveman, and president of Amazing Facts International since 1994, hosting Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor and Bible Answers Live.
Doyle
Doyle is an Irish surname, from Ó Dubhghaill, "descendant of Dubhghall", originally a byname for darker-haired Danish Vikings, and now one of Ireland's most common surnames, especially in Leinster.
Dr. Simi
Dr. Simi is the mascot of Farmacias Similares, the Mexican generic-pharmacy chain founded in 1997 by Víctor González Torres; the bald, mustachioed doctor based on Joaquín Pardavé became a global concert phenomenon after fans began throwing plush dolls to artists such as Aurora and Lady Gaga.
DREAM Act
The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act) is recurring U.S. legislation, first introduced in 2001 by Hatch and Durbin, that would give child-arrival immigrants a pathway to permanent residence; never enacted, it inspired the term Dreamers and DACA.
Druze in Israel
The Druze in Israel are an Arabic-speaking religious minority recognized by the state as a separate community and are uniquely subject to compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces.
Du Pont family
Du Pont family: American dynasty founded by Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771–1834), whose 1802 Brandywine Creek gunpowder mill became DuPont; dominant in Delaware politics, wealth estimated $16–22 billion.
Dungan people
Dungans: Chinese-speaking Muslim (Hui-descended) minority of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia; arrived in 1877–78 and 1881–83 migrations after the Dungan Revolt; speak Cyrillic-script Dungan.
Dutch Americans
Dutch Americans, Americans of Dutch (Netherlands) ancestry, numbered 5,045,046 in the 2024 ACS. Distinguished by the New Netherland colonial era, the 1846-47 Calvinist Midwest migration, and post-1946 immigration.
Dutch people
Dutch people are the Germanic ethnic group and nation of the Netherlands. Three-quarters aged 15+ speak Dutch at home; 10% speak recognized regional languages (Frisian, Low Saxon, Limburgish); early modern Republic cities were 25-60% migrant.
Dyula people
The Dyula, also spelled Dioula, Jula, or Juula, are Mande-speaking Muslim trader communities of West Africa whose name means "trader" in Manding, referring specifically to a professional trader.
E Clampus Vitus
E Clampus Vitus (ECV), the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus, is a fraternal order founded as a Gold Rush parody and revived in 1931 as a western history society with 51 chapters and over 2,000 plaques.
East Slavic name
East Slavic naming system of Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians: given name, patronymic, surname. Covers patronymic suffixes (-ovich/-ivna), -enko and -ov surname types, 988 Christianization, and Ukrainian name frequencies.
East Slavs
East Slavs: the Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarusians, speakers of the East Slavic branch of Slavic, shaped by Kyivan Rus, the 988 Christianization, and debated ethnogenesis and homeland.
EB-1 visa
The EB-1 visa is the U.S. employment-based first preference (priority workers) green card: EB-1A extraordinary ability, EB-1B outstanding professors and researchers, and EB-1C multinational executives and managers.
EB-5 visa
EB-5 visa: U.S. employment-based fifth preference immigrant investor visa, created 1990. Grants green cards for $1,050,000 ($800,000 in a TEA or infrastructure project) invested and 10 U.S. jobs created; regional center pathway dominates.
Ebira people
The Ebira people, also called Egbira or Igbira, are an ethnic group of North-Central Nigeria concentrated in the hills of central Kogi State, with Okene as their administrative center.
Eddie Mabo
Eddie Koiki Mabo (29 June 1936 – 21 January 1992), Meriam man of Mer (Murray Island), led the Mabo v Queensland (No 2) case in which the High Court overturned terra nullius and recognised native title.
Edith Bouvier Beale
Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie", 1917–2002), American socialite, model, and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, lived in seclusion with her mother "Big Edie" in the decaying East Hampton mansion Grey Gardens, subject of the 1975 Maysles documentary and later a fashion icon.
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
"Big Edie" Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale was an American socialite and amateur singer, aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who lived in seclusion at Grey Gardens in East Hampton.