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Gareth Barlow
Gareth Barlow is a British broadcaster presenting Sky News breakfast (6am–7am, 10am–1pm), formerly a BBC presenter 2017–2023 and first UK broadcaster to announce Pope Francis's death; previously a North Yorkshire farmer.
Garhwali people
The Garhwali people, also known as Garhwalis, inhabit Garhwal in northwestern Uttarakhand, India, speak the Central Pahari Garhwali language, and are known for Hindu hill culture and widespread labor migration.
Garifuna
Garifuna (Garínagu, Black Carib): Afro-Indigenous people of Arawak, Carib, and African descent exiled from St. Vincent in 1797, living on the Caribbean coasts of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and Nicaragua; Arawakan language, UNESCO-recognized music and dance.
Garo people
The Garo people (A'chik, Mande) are a Sino-Tibetan-speaking matrilineal ethnic group of Meghalaya's Garo Hills, Assam, and Mymensingh, Bangladesh, known for Nokna heiress inheritance, the Songsarek religion, widespread Christianity, and the Wangala harvest festival.
Garrick Club
The Garrick Club, a London private members' club founded in 1831 and named after actor David Garrick, holds major theatrical art and library collections; it admitted its first women members, including Judi Dench, in 2024 after 193 years as men-only.
Gaucho
Gaucho: nomadic horseman and cattle herder of the Argentine pampas, Uruguay, and southern Brazil (17th–19th centuries), counterpart of the vaquero; famous for the facón, boleadoras, mate, and the poem Martín Fierro, and now a national symbol kept alive by festivals and traditionalist centers.
Gauravi Kumari
Gauravi Kumari (born 1999), Jaipur royal, daughter of Rajasthan Deputy CM Diya Kumari and sister of Maharaja Padmanabh Singh; PDKF General Secretary, PDKF Store co-founder, Jimmy Choo ambassador, Met Gala 2026 debutant.
Gay Nigger Association of America
Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA), internet trolling collective founded circa 2002, named after the 1992 Danish film Gayniggers from Outer Space; known for pranks on MacRumors and Wikipedia, weev's presidency, and the Goatse Security offshoot.
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are Ferdinand Tönnies's paired sociological ideal types from his 1887 book: organic, kinship-based community versus rational, self-interested society, later adapted by Weber and Durkheim.
Generación de los 60
Generación de los 60 is the group of Salvadoran writers and poets who came of age in the 1960s, the most visible phase of the Generación Comprometida.
Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha) is the cohort born roughly 2010–2024 after Gen Z, coined by Mark McCrindle; over 2 billion people, the first all-21st-century, smartphone-native generation, followed by Generation Beta.
Generation Beta
Generation Beta (Gen Beta) is the proposed cohort after Generation Alpha, born 2025–2039 under Mark McCrindle's definition; ~2.1 billion projected, mostly children of Gen Z, not formally adopted by Pew.
Generation Jones
Generation Jones, or Gen Jones, is a cohort born in the Western world roughly between 1954 and 1965, positioned between Baby Boomers and Generation X and named by Jonathan Pontell.
Generation X
Generation X (Gen X) is the cohort born roughly 1965–1980, between Baby Boomers and Millennials, about 55 million Americans. Named via Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel; known for self-reliance and skepticism, also called the MTV generation.
Generation Z
Generation Z, the cohort after Millennials born from 1997 onward per Pew Research Center, defined by formative technology, no memory of 9/11, and debated boundaries.
Generations of Noah
Generations of Noah, or Table of Nations (Origines Gentium), Genesis 10 genealogy of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth listing 70 nations after the Flood, organized geographically and later yielding the terms Semites, Hamites, and Japhetites.
Genocide of Indigenous peoples
Genocide of Indigenous peoples: colonial and settler-colonial destruction of Indigenous groups, defined by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention and Lemkin's concept; key cases include the Americas, California 1848–1860, and German South-West Africa, with debate over intent, disease mortality, and cultural genocide.
Gentile
Gentile is the standard English term for a non-Jew, from Latin gentilis via Hebrew goy/goyim ("nations") and Greek ethnē; covers biblical usage, rabbinic Noahide framework, Gentile Christianity, and modern connotations.
Gentlemen's club
Gentlemen's club: a members-only private social club created by and for upper-class British men, originating in 17th-18th century London (White's, 1693), peaking with 400+ Victorian clubs, electing members by blackballing.
Gentry
Gentry: landowning social class below the titled nobility, especially in England (knights, esquires, gentlemen living on rental income). Also the Chinese gentry. Key facts: post-Black Death political rise, local office, primogeniture, persistence to the 1870s.
Georgians
Georgians (Kartvelebi, ქართველები) are the South Caucasus nation forming the majority of Georgia, speakers of Kartvelian languages with three alphabets, ancient Colchis and Iberian roots, and a global diaspora.
German Americans
German Americans, Americans of German ancestry, form the largest US ancestry group: about 41 million in 2022, over 12 percent. Key facts include 1683 Germantown founding, peak 1850s migration, WWI anti-German persecution, and rapid assimilation.
German Brazilians
German Brazilians (teuto-brasileiros, Deutschbrasilianer) are Brazilians of German ancestry, settled from 1824 at São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul; speakers of Hunsrückisch; shaped by the Vargas-era Nationalization Campaign and Blumenau's Oktoberfest.
German Canadians
German Canadians, one of Canada's largest European-origin groups (3.0 million in 2021), trace settlement from 1750s Lunenburg through Mennonite, prairie, and postwar immigration, with heavy assimilation and declining German mother-tongue retention.
German colonization of southern Brazil
German colonization of southern Brazil was a state-sponsored settlement program, begun in 1824, that brought German farmers to Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná.
German diaspora
German diaspora: Germans and their descendants living outside Germany, shaped by 5.5 million 1816–1914 overseas emigrants (mainly to the USA), 14 million postwar expellees, and today's German citizens abroad, concentrated in Switzerland.
German nobility
German nobility (Adel): hereditary estate defined by land, rank classes, Uradel vs Briefadel; privileges abolished by Weimar Article 109 in 1919, titles surviving in surnames; ~60,000 name bearers then, ~80,000 today.
Germans
Germans, the people of Germany, defined by citizenship and a debated civic-ethnic identity; from theodisk ethnonym, 1871 unification, 1913 ethnic citizenship law to 2024-2025 reform with 332,500 naturalizations and 29.7% migrant background.
Ghanaian diaspora
The Ghanaian diaspora is the population of Ghanaians and their descendants living outside Ghana, an estimated 1.1 million people in 2024, sending nearly $7.8 billion in remittances by 2025.
Gift economy
Gift economy: transfer of goods and services without price or agreed return, coordinated by reciprocity and obligation. Central concept from Mauss's 1925 Essai sur le don, with potlatch, kula, and modern open source and digital gifting as instances.