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Group home
A group home is a residential facility where a small number of unrelated people live together with staff supervision, providing 24-hour care as an alternative to large institutions.
Guanches
The Guanches were the Amazigh (Berber) indigenous people of the Canary Islands, settled from North Africa, isolated without seafaring, conquered by Castile 1402-1496, with 16-31% ancestry surviving in modern Canarians.
Guaraní people
Guaraní: indigenous Tupi-Guarani-speaking people (self-name Awá) of Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia; subgroups Mbyá, Kaiowá, Ñandeva, Ava Guaraní; ~280,000 people, official language in Paraguay since 1992.
Guatemalans
Guatemalans, also known as the Guatemalan people, are the people of Guatemala, about 18.7 million in 2025, mostly Ladino and Maya, with a large diaspora in the United States.
Gujarati Muslims
Gujarati Muslims, Muslims of Gujarat state in western India, including Bohra, Khoja, and Memon trading castes; about 9-10% of the state population, largely urban, marked by the 2002 violence and Sachar Committee findings.
Gujarati people (ગુજરાતી લોકો)
Gujarati people (ગુજરાતી લોકો) are the Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Gujarat, western India, speakers of Gujarati, named after the Gurjar settlers of the 5th century CE, with a major trading diaspora in East Africa, Britain, and North America.
Gulamgiri
Gulamgiri (गुलामगिरी, "Slavery") is an 1873 Marathi book by Jyotirao Phule that equates the caste system with slavery and became the foundational text of the Satyashodhak Samaj.
Gullah
Gullah (Geechee) refers to African American people of the coastal Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida, descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans who created the Gullah creole language and retained strong African traditions; Congress designated the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor in 2006.
Guna people
Guna (Dule, formerly Kuna), Indigenous people of Panama's Caribbean Guna Yala archipelago (formerly San Blas); won autonomy through the 1925 Guna Revolution and Republic of Tule; matrilineal society, mola textiles, comarca self-government, 2024 Gardi Sugdub climate relocation.
Gurjar
Gurjar (Gujjar, Gujar) community of northern India and Pakistan, pastoralist origin, linked to the medieval Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty; Scheduled Tribe in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, OBC in other states, with an active reservation movement in Rajasthan.
Gurjars in Kashmir
The Gurjars, also spelled Gujjars, are a Muslim, Gojri-speaking community of Jammu and Kashmir and the region's largest Scheduled Tribe, with many historically practicing transhumance between Pir Panjal pastures.
Gurjars in Punjab
Gurjars in Punjab: the Gurjar (Gujjar) ethnic community of Indian and Pakistani Punjab, historically pastoral and agricultural, recorded at 2,038,692 in the 1931 census, with place names Gujrat, Gujranwala, and Gujar Khan derived from the tribe.
Gurleen Maan
Gurleen Maan, born 1988, is a Canadian farmer and reality television personality who helps run her family's Maan Farms in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and was runner-up on The Traitors Canada in 2023.
Gus Grissom
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (1926–1967), USAF lieutenant colonel and one of NASA's Mercury Seven; second American in space aboard Liberty Bell 7 (1961), commander of Gemini III (1965), and Apollo 1 commander killed in the January 27, 1967 launch pad fire.
Gusii people
The Gusii (Abagusii, Kisii) are a Bantu people of Kisii and Nyamira counties, western Kenya, speaking Ekegusii (zone E42), settled in the Kisii highlands around 1800, farming tea, coffee, and soapstone carving.
Guyanese people
Guyanese people are the inhabitants of Guyana and their diaspora, formed by Amerindian, African, Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, and European ancestry; six ethnic groups, English-speaking, roughly half living abroad.
Gweilo (鬼佬)
Gweilo (鬼佬, gwai2 lou2) is Cantonese slang for a white man, literally "ghost man" or "foreign devil", dating to 16th-century Pearl River Delta contact; widely used in Hong Kong and ruled not inherently derogatory in a 2022 discrimination case.
Gwen Walz
Gwen Walz (nee Whipple) is Minnesota's 39th first lady, a 29-year public school educator, first gubernatorial spouse with a Capitol office, Bard Prison Initiative supporter, and 2024 Democratic campaign surrogate.
Gwichʼin
Gwichʼin: Dene (Athabaskan) people of the Mackenzie Delta, northern Yukon, and northeast Alaska, also called Loucheux. Known for the 1992 Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement, ongoing self-government talks, and defense of the Porcupine caribou herd.
Gyeongju Kim clan
The Gyeongju Kim clan (경주 김씨; 慶州 金氏) is a Korean kin group with Gyeongju as its ancestral seat, claiming descent from Silla's royal line; about 1.9 million people belonged in 2015.
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) is the UK policy umbrella for Romany Gypsies, Irish Travellers and Roma communities. Census 2021 counted 71,440 people identifying as Gypsy or Irish Traveller, with the worst outcomes of any ethnic group in health, education and employment.
H-1B visa
H-1B visa: U.S. specialty-occupation work visa created by the Immigration Act of 1990; 65,000 annual cap plus 20,000 U.S. advanced-degree slots, six-year maximum stay, lottery selection, $215 registration, and 2025 $100,000 payment requirement.
Habesha peoples
Habesha (ሓበሻ) is a pan-ethnic identifier for highland peoples of Ethiopia and Eritrea, chiefly Tigrinya, Tigray, and Amhara groups; attested from Ezana's 4th-century inscription, contested as a unitary identity, prominent in diasporas.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International is a Christian nonprofit founded in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller in Americus, Georgia, that builds no-profit, no-interest homes via volunteer labor and sweat equity, serving over 65 million people in 70+ countries.
Hadza people
Hadza people (Hadzabe), about 1,200 hunter-gatherers near Lake Eyasi, northern Tanzania, in camps of ~30 moving every two months; women forage plant foods, men hunt and take honey; ~250 remain full-time foragers.
Hāfu (ハーフ)
Hāfu (ハーフ) is a Japanese wasei-eigo term, short for half-blood, for a person with one Japanese and one foreign parent; alternatives include daburu, mix, kokusaiji, and Amerasian, and usage is debated in Japan.
Haida people
Haida people (X̱aayda/X̱aad), Indigenous Northwest Coast nation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, and southeast Alaska. Known for formline art, totem poles, population collapse after contact, and 2024-2025 recognition of Aboriginal title to Haida Gwaii.
Hairdresser
Hairdresser: a personal-appearance worker who cuts, styles, colors, and chemically treats hair, related to barbers and cosmetologists; licensed in all US states, about 595,000 US jobs, $17.21 median hourly wage, with documented musculoskeletal and chemical health risks.
Haitian boat people
Haitian boat people were Haitians who fled by sea to Florida beginning in the early 1970s, most settling in Miami; over 55,000 arrived by 1981, facing interdiction at sea.
Haitian immigration to Brazil
Haitian immigration to Brazil is the migration of Haitians to Brazil, which surged after Haiti's January 2010 earthquake; Haitians are now among Brazil's four largest immigrant groups.