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Hlai people
The Hlai people, also known as the Li people, are the indigenous Tai-Kadai-speaking inhabitants of Hainan Island. They are known for their Li brocade and pottery.
Hmong Americans
Hmong Americans: Americans self-identifying as Hmong, an ethnic group from China and Laos; about 360,000 in 2023, largely refugee descendants of the Secret War, concentrated in California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Hmong people
The Hmong are an ethnic group originating in China about 3,000 years ago, now in Southeast Asia and the US diaspora; speakers of Hmong Dawb and Hmong Leng, refugees after 1975, with RPA and Pahawh Hmong scripts.
Ho-Chunk
Ho-Chunk (Hoocąk, formerly Wisconsin Winnebago): Siouan-speaking Native American nation of Wisconsin, 7,752 citizens, four-branch government, 1994 name reclamation, treaties and removals, gaming economy, 2026 Dane County land return.
Hoa people (华人)
Hoa people (华人, người Hoa) are Vietnam's ethnic Chinese minority, one of 54 recognized groups, 749,466 in the 2019 census, concentrated in Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, and Soc Trang, with migration history since the 2nd century BC and a mass 1978-79 exodus.
Hoi polloi (οἱ πολλοί)
Hoi polloi (οἱ πολλοί, "the many") is an English plural noun for the common people or masses, often derogatory. Borrowed from Ancient Greek via Dryden (1668) and Byron (1822); anglicized by 1837; "the hoi polloi" is standard despite the embedded Greek article.
Hōjō clan
Hōjō clan (北条氏): Japanese warrior lineage that ruled as hereditary regents (shikken) of the Kamakura shogunate from 1203 to 1333, distinct from the unrelated Later Hōjō (Go-Hōjō) daimyo of Odawara destroyed in 1590.
Hoklo people (闽南人)
Hoklo people (闽南人) are Hokkien-speaking Han Chinese from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, southern Fujian, who migrated to Taiwan and Southeast Asia; in Taiwan they are the largest Han subgroup, with about 15 million Southern Min speakers.
Homecoming
Homecoming is an annual ritual of return to a place of origin, covering American school and church homecomings, HBCU celebrations, family reunions, diaspora return visits, and migrant festival travel.
Homeland
Homeland: the territory a group regards as the birthplace of its identity. Covers homeland in nationalism theory, diaspora and long-distance nationalism, indigenous land rights, and territorial conflict.
Homesteading
Homesteading: the 1862 Homestead Act land-claim program (160 acres, five years, ended 1976/1986), the state homestead exemption in property law, and the modern self-sufficiency lifestyle.
Honky
Honky (honkie, honkey) is an offensive North American slang term for a white person, used chiefly by Black speakers; attested by 1967, probably from "hunky," a slur for East-Central European immigrants.
Hookah lounge
Hookah lounge (shisha lounge, hookah bar): a hospitality venue where customers smoke flavored waterpipe tobacco for a fee. Known for group sessions, heavy indoor PM2.5 and CO levels, and smoke-free-law exemptions in many US states.
Hoosier
Hoosier: demonym for a native or resident of Indiana and nickname of Indiana University's teams. In general use since the 1830s; origin uncertain, with Dunn's Cumberland 'hoozer' hill-dweller theory and Smith's 1830 Ohio River boatmen thesis as leading accounts.
Hope Florida
Hope Florida is Casey DeSantis's 2021 welfare-navigation program using Hope Navigators; its foundation received $10 million from a 2024 Centene Medicaid settlement that a grand jury found was misappropriated into anti-Amendment 3 political spending, with no charges filed.
Hopi
The Hopi are a Pueblo people of northeastern Arizona whose sovereign Hopi Tribe governs 12 villages on three mesas across more than 1.5 million acres, with a Tribal Council established in 1936 and a homeland surrounded by the Navajo Nation.
Horse culture
Horse culture: societies and communities whose way of life centers on herding, breeding, and riding horses, from Botai and steppe pastoralism to Plains Indigenous and modern rodeo cultures.
Hossam Shabat
Hossam Shabat (حسام شبات), Palestinian journalist, 23, Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent in northern Gaza and Drop Site News contributor, killed March 24, 2025 in an Israeli strike on his car in Beit Lahia; IDF called him a Hamas sniper, which he denied.
Hottentot (racial term)
Hottentot, also Hottentotten or Afrikaans Hotnot, is a colonial-era racial exonym for the Khoikhoi (Khoekhoe) peoples of southern Africa, coined in 1670s Dutch from syllables imitating click speech, now offensive and replaced by Khoikhoi.
Housing in Vienna
Housing in Vienna, the Wiener Wohnbau model or Red Vienna legacy: a system of about 220,000 municipal and 200,000 co-operative social flats serving a broad middle class, with high income limits, regulated rents, and 70–80% subsidized new construction.
Hui people (回族)
The Hui people (回族, Huizu) are a Chinese Muslim ethnic group formed from Arab, Persian, and Central Asian traders, numbering over 10 million and centered in Ningxia.
Human capital flight
Human capital flight, or brain drain, is the emigration of skilled professionals such as doctors, engineers, and scientists, typically from lower-wage to higher-wage countries. Related terms include brain gain and brain circulation; it can reduce origin-country growth, offset partly by remittances and return migration.
Human extinction
Human extinction is the end of the human species, studied as existential risk, a term Nick Bostrom coined in 2002. Natural background rate is below 1 in 870,000 per year; anthropogenic risks include nuclear war, AI, and engineered pathogens.
Human geography
Human geography is one of geography's two major branches, alongside physical geography, studying how people's lives and activities are arranged spatially, with subfields including cultural, economic, political, and urban geography.
Human migration
Human migration is the movement of people between places, permanently or temporarily. Also called emigration, immigration, and forced displacement; 304 million international migrants in 2024, 3.7% of world population.
Human overpopulation
Human overpopulation: the claim that population exceeds sustainable carrying capacity. Also Malthusianism. Current UN WPP 2024 projects peak at 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s; fertility at 2.25; carrying capacity estimates 7.7-12 billion.
Human population planning
Human population planning: deliberate government efforts to influence population size, growth, and structure, via pro-natalist or anti-natalist policies, distinct from individual family planning; spans Malthusian era, China's one-child policy, and modern pro-natalist programs in China, Japan, South Korea, and Hungary.
Human sex ratio
Human sex ratio: ratio of males to females, especially the sex ratio at birth (SRB), about 1.05 male per female live births naturally. Covers conception-to-birth trajectory, regional baselines (1.031-1.067), and the 12 countries with SRB imbalance and 23.1 million missing female births.
Hungarian emigration to the United States
Hungarian emigration to the United States was a mass movement from the Kingdom of Hungary that began in the 1880s and peaked between 1905 and 1907.
Hungarian refugee crisis of 1956
The Hungarian refugee crisis of 1956 was the flight of about 200,000 people from Hungary after the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian Revolution, mostly to Austria and Yugoslavia.