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Italian Argentines
Italian Argentines: Argentines of Italian descent, the core of Argentina's mass-migration-era European immigration (12.5% of the 1895 population); distinguished from Italian Americans by greater integration, Italian-Spanish linguistic affinity, and cocoliche and lunfardo influence on Rioplatense Spanish.
Italian immigration to Brazil
Italian immigration to Brazil (Imigração italiana no Brasil) brought about 1.4 million Italians between the 1870s and 1920, mainly as subsidized labor on São Paulo's coffee plantations.
Italian Jews
Italian Jews, or Italkim (איטלקים), are the Jews of Italy's oldest continuous communities, dating to Roman antiquity, with a distinct liturgical rite (minhag Benè Roma), Roman ghetto history 1555–1870, and UCEI representation, distinct from Ashkenazim and Sephardim.
Italians
Italians (Italian: italiani) are the citizens and inhabitants of Italy and its worldwide diaspora. Their shared national identity took shape only after unification in 1861.
Itinerant groups in Europe
Itinerant groups in Europe: Roma, Sinti, Irish Travellers (Pavee), Yenish, Gens du voyage, Nordic Travellers and Showpeople, their languages, populations, legal status, and accommodation policy.
Ivorian refugee crisis
The Ivorian refugee crisis is the forced displacement produced by Côte d'Ivoire's political violence from 2002 into the early 2020s, including two civil wars that displaced hundreds of thousands.
Ivy Getty
Ivy Love Getty, American artist and model, great-granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, granddaughter of Gordon and Ann Getty; married Tobias Engel in 2021 in a mirrored Maison Margiela gown.
Ivy League nude posture photos
Ivy League nude posture photos: mandatory nude freshman photographs at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Seven Sisters colleges, and Swarthmore from the 1880s to the late 1960s, tied to W. H. Sheldon's body-typing pseudoscience and exposed by Ron Rosenbaum's 1995 New York Times Magazine article.
Iwerne camps
Iwerne camps (Bash camps): elite evangelical holiday camps founded in the 1930s by EJH Nash at Iwerne Minster, Dorset, for top public schoolboys; closed 2020 after the John Smyth abuse cover-up.
Iwi
Iwi are the largest descent-based groups in Māori society, made up of hapū and whānau, tracing descent from founding ancestors or waka. Parties to the Treaty of Waitangi, iwi today hold Treaty settlements, fisheries and investment assets, and statutory roles in planning and health.
Iyer
Iyer (ஐயர்) is a Hindu Brahmin caste of Tamil origin, also a surname, whose members follow the Smarta tradition and Advaita philosophy of Adi Shankara.
J-1 visa
J-1 visa: United States nonimmigrant exchange visitor visa (BridgeUSA, Fulbright-Hays Act 1961) for 15 categories including au pair, intern, professor, and physician; about 300,000 participants yearly, DS-2019 sponsor-issued, with a possible 212(e) two-year home-residency rule.
Jack Mormon
Jack Mormon is an American term (1835–45) for either a non-Mormon friendly to Latter-day Saints or a lax, nominal Mormon; originally applied to Missouri and Illinois sympathizers, later to nonconforming members.
Jacques de Bascher
Jacques de Bascher (1951-1989), French dandy born in Saigon, companion of Karl Lagerfeld and lover of Yves Saint Laurent; his affair triggered the couturiers' rupture, and he directed the 1977 Fendi film Histoire d'eau.
James "Radio" Kennedy
James Robert "Radio" Kennedy (1946-2019) was a South Carolina man with an intellectual disability who became a fixture at T.L. Hanna High School and inspired the 2003 film Radio with Cuba Gooding Jr.
James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler (born 1948) is an American author and social critic, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency, critic of suburban sprawl and peak oil, blogger of Clusterfuck Nation, and host of the KunstlerCast podcast.
Jamie Ding
Jamie Ding, American Jeopardy! champion, Princeton 2013 molecular biology graduate, New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency administrator, and Seton Hall law student, won 31 consecutive games in 2026 for $882,605, fifth all-time in wins and regular-season winnings.
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), born Jane Butzner, American-Canadian writer and activist; author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961); led fights against Robert Moses projects in New York and the Spadina Expressway in Toronto.
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans (日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry, including Issei immigrants and their Nisei, Kibei, and Sansei descendants. About 120,000 were incarcerated under Executive Order 9066 in WWII; the 1988 Civil Liberties Act brought apology and $20,000 redress.
Japanese Brazilians
Japanese Brazilians (nipo-brasileiros, 日系ブラジル人) are Brazilians of Japanese ancestry from migration beginning with the 1908 Kasato Maru; Brazil hosts the world's largest Japanese diaspora, about 2.7 million, and since the 1980s many have migrated back to Japan as dekasegi workers.
Japanese clans
Japanese clans (uji 氏, shizoku 氏族) were kin-based political associations of ancient Japan, ranked by the shisei system of clan names and hereditary kabane titles, reformed in 684 into eight kabane, and persisting through the Nara era before the household ie displaced the uji by the twelfth century.
Japanese diaspora
Japanese diaspora: Nikkei communities of Japanese emigrants and descendants worldwide, beginning with 153 migrants to Hawaii in 1868; roughly 770,000 prewar emigrants; Brazil hosts the world's largest Nikkei population.
Japanese immigration to Brazil
Japanese immigration to Brazil began on 18 June 1908, when the Kasato Maru docked at Santos with 781 immigrants bound for São Paulo's coffee plantations.
Japanese in Hawaii
Japanese in Hawaii: the Japanese diaspora community of Hawaii, from the 1868 Gannenmono and 1885–1894 government-sponsored migration through plantation labor, the 1909 and 1920 strikes, selective wartime internment, and lasting cultural influence.
Japanese people
Japanese people are the population native to the Japanese Archipelago, formed by admixture of Jomon foragers and Yayoi-era continental farmers (10-20% Jomon ancestry). Key groups: Ainu, Ryukyuans, Burakumin, zainichi Koreans, and a ~2.5 million-strong Nikkei diaspora.
Japanese Peruvians (日系ペルー人)
Japanese Peruvians (日系ペルー人), the nikkei community of Japanese descent in Peru, began with 790 Sakura Maru contract workers on April 3, 1899; 18,727 arrived by 1923, and about 200,000 descendants now span six generations, despite WWII deportations to US camps.
Japanese Red Cross Society
The Japanese Red Cross Society (日本赤十字社) is Japan's national Red Cross society, founded in 1877 as the Philanthropic Society during the Satsuma Rebellion and renamed in 1887.
Jarawas (Andaman Islands)
Jarawas (Ang), an Indigenous Andamanese hunter-gatherer people of South and Middle Andaman's western coasts, India; a PVTG of about 341 people with a 1,028 sq km tribal reserve under the 1956 PAT Regulation and 2004 Jarawa policy.
Jat Sikh (ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ)
Jat Sikh (ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ), also Jatt Sikh, is the landowning agrarian caste dominant in Punjab's Sikh community: about 25% of the population owning over 90% of farmland, shaped by colonial policy, gurdwara politics, and diaspora.
Jats
Jats: a large agrarian caste-community of northwestern South Asia (Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Sind), Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims; 82.5 million in India (2012); distinct from the pejorative Afghan peripatetic label Jāt.