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Ewe people
The Ewe are a Gbe-speaking West African people of southeastern Ghana, southern Togo, and southern Benin; language Ewe (Eʋegbe), migration tradition Ketu–Tado–Notsie exodus under King Agorkoli, Hogbetsotso festival, and transborder chieftaincy.
Expatriate
Expatriate: a person living outside their country of origin, usually temporarily and often on corporate assignment; also called expat. Distinguished from migrant by privilege, and critiqued in migration scholarship as a postcolonial, racially asymmetric category.
Expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriates in the UAE, about 8.7 million migrant workers over 80 percent of residents, live under the kafala sponsorship system; key issues include heat exposure, wage theft, and labor reforms.
Expulsion of Asians from Uganda
The expulsion of Asians from Uganda was the forced removal of some 60,000 to 80,000 people of South Asian descent ordered by Idi Amin in 1972.
Expulsion of Greeks from Egypt
The expulsion of Greeks from Egypt was the departure of most of Egypt's large Greek community from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, triggered chiefly by Nasser's nationalization laws of 1961.
Expulsions and exoduses of Jews
The expulsions and exoduses of Jews, also called Jewish expulsions, are episodes in which Jewish communities were forced from territories, including England in 1290 and Spain in 1492.
Extreme Tech Challenge
Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) is a California nonprofit that runs the world's largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges, founded by Young Sohn and Bill Tai.
Ezhava
The Ezhava are Kerala's largest Hindu caste group, traditionally coconut cultivators and toddy tappers, transformed by Narayana Guru's reform movement, the 1903 SNDP Yogam, and the Vaikkam satyagraha.
Fair
Fair: a periodic, legally franchised gathering of buyers and sellers at long intervals, distinct from the weekly market; from Latin feria. Covers medieval fairs (Champagne, Stourbridge), trade fairs, and agricultural county fairs.
False titles of nobility
False titles of nobility, sometimes called royal title scams, are invented or assumed titles of rank that no country's authorities recognize, often sold with tiny souvenir plots of Scottish land.
Famine in Sudan (2024–present)
Famine in Sudan (2024–present): IPC-confirmed famine in Darfur and Kordofan during the SAF–RSF war that began April 2023, first confirmed in Zamzam camp, later El Fasher, Kadugli, and the Western Nuba Mountains, with millions in Phase 3+ hunger.
Fante people
The Fante people, also spelled Fanti, are an Akan people of southern Ghana's coast between Accra and Sekondi-Takoradi, known as traders and for the 1868 Fante Confederacy.
Federation of Expellees
Bund der Vertriebenen (BdV), Federation of Expellees: Bonn-based German umbrella association of expellee Landsmannschaften and Landesverbände, founded 1957/1958; Charter of German Expellees, Lastenausgleich advocacy, declining ageing membership.
Fijians
Fijians are the people of Fiji: indigenous iTaukei (about 57%), Indo-Fijians (about 37%), and Rotumans. Covers the contested name 'Fijian', the 2010 iTaukei naming law, vanua social structure, 88% native land, and migration.
Filipino Americans
Filipino Americans, the third-largest Asian origin group in the U.S. (about 4.6 million in 2023), trace origins to the Philippines, a former U.S. territory acquired in 1898. Pew data show high English proficiency, $106,400 median household income, and majority Catholic affiliation.
Filipino Canadians
Filipino Canadians, Canadians of Filipino descent, are Canada's fourth-largest racialized group: over 957,000 in the 2021 Census, three-quarters foreign-born, concentrated in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba, with heavy caregiver-stream immigration.
Filipino values
Filipino values: kapwa (shared self), utang na loob (debt of gratitude), hiya, and pakikisama, systematized in Sikolohiyang Pilipino by Virgilio Enriquez, examined through collectivism research and critiques of Tagalog-centric framing.
Filipinos
Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino) are the people of the Philippines, a Southeast Asian archipelago nation, numbering about 112.7 million, with some 10 million more living overseas.
Finnish Americans
Finnish Americans are Americans of Finnish ancestry, from a 1630s Delaware settlement to a migration of roughly 340,000 between 1870 and 1920, concentrated in the Midwest.
Finns
Finns (suomalaiset) are the people of Finland, defined statistically by Finnish background (a parent born in Finland). Key facts: population 5,652,881 (2025), dual east-west genetic origins, Uralic Finnish language, large North American and Swedish diasporas.
First Families of Virginia
First Families of Virginia (FFV): old Tidewater planter gentry of colonial Virginia, dominating Council, Burgesses, and vestries; associated with the 1912 Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/5, a by-invitation lineage society for descendants of pre-1625 settlers.
First Nations in Canada
First Nations are the Indigenous peoples of Canada other than Inuit and Métis: 1,048,405 people in the 2021 Census, over 600 nations, rights affirmed under section 35, with treaties, self-government agreements, land title claims, and language revitalization defining their current position.
Five Civilized Tribes
The Five Civilized Tribes are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole nations of the southeastern United States, removed to Indian Territory, allotted under the Curtis Act via the Dawes Rolls, with Freedmen citizenship disputes continuing.
Five Races Under One Union (五族共和)
Five Races Under One Union (五族共和, wuzu gonghe) was the Republic of China's founding multiethnic doctrine, unifying Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui, and Tibetan peoples, symbolized by the five-striped flag, later abandoned by Sun Yat-sen for assimilationism and by the PRC for its own ethnic classification.
Flag
A flag is cloth displayed from a staff or cord as a standard, ensign, or signal. The article covers its etymology, ancient standards, the Roman vexillum, national flags, vexillology, and design principles.
Flag of Toronto
Flag of Toronto: municipal flag designed 1974 by Rene De Santis, showing City Hall's twin towers as a white T on Pantone 287 blue with a red maple leaf for the Council Chamber; adopted unanimously November 6, 1974, re-adopted 1999 after amalgamation.
Flapper
Flapper: young women of the 1920s in America and Britain, also called the New Woman or garconne, defined by bobbed hair, short beaded dresses, jazz-age freedom, and the 1929 crash that ended the era.
Flash mob
A flash mob, or flashmobbing, is a group that assembles suddenly in a public place, performs a brief act, then disperses, organized via email or social media since 2003.
Flemish people
Flemish people (Vlamingen) are the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Flanders, Belgium, including Dutch speakers of Brussels. They speak Belgian Dutch with four dialect areas, shaped by the Flemish Movement, the 1898 Equality Law, and hyperstandardization on the Netherlandic Dutch norm.
Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950), the Vertreibung: mass movement of Reichsdeutsche and Volksdeutsche from Central and Eastern Europe into occupied Germany under the Potsdam transfer clause, integrated in the West via the 1952 equalization-of-burdens law.