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Mink'a
Mink'a, also written minka and regionally called minga, is a Quechua term for communal reciprocal work, such as harvesting or building homes, still practiced across the Andes.
Minority group
Minority group: sociological concept defined by subordinate power rather than numbers, from Wirth's 1945 definition to UN legal protections, types, and contested usage.
Miryang Park clan
The Miryang Park clan (밀양 박씨) is a Korean clan whose ancestral seat is Miryang, the largest Park clan with about 3.1 million members in 2015.
Mishar Tatars (мишәр)
Mishar Tatars (мишәр) are a Volga-Ural Tatar subethnos speaking Tatar's western dialect, concentrated historically around Nizhny Novgorod and Meshchera, with debated origins traced to Burtas, Khazars, Kipchaks, or Mozhars and a Baltic diaspora.
Miskito people
Miskito (Miskitu) people of the Mosquito Coast of eastern Honduras and Nicaragua; Afro-Indigenous people of the historic Miskitu Kingdom, now the region's largest Indigenous population, with autonomy struggles, lobster diving livelihoods, and land-rights conflicts.
Miss International 2026
Miss International 2026 is the 64th edition of the Japan-based international beauty pageant founded in 1960 in Long Beach, California. Delegates from over 70 countries and regions compete; Catalina Duque of the 2025 edition is the reigning titleholder.
Miss Supranational 2026
Miss Supranational 2026, the 17th edition held in Nowy Sącz, Poland, was won by Katrina Llegado of the Philippines, the second Filipina titleholder after Mutya Datul (2013), under new eligibility rules.
Miss Universe Thailand 2024
Miss Universe Thailand 2024 was the national pageant held in Thailand on July 14, 2024, won by Opal Suchata Chuangsri of Bangkok before 40 contestants.
Missouria
The Missouria (Niutachi, People of the River's Mouth) were a Chiwere Siouan tribe of the Missouri River valley who gave Missouri its name, allied with France under Bourgmont, and merged with the Otoe after smallpox and war.
Mizrahi Jews (מזרחים)
Mizrahi Jews (Mizrahim, מזרחים) are Jews of Middle Eastern, North African, and Asian origin, distinct from Ashkenazim; about 48% of Israeli Jews, shaped by post-1948 mass immigration, persistent ethnic gaps, and Sephardic religious custom.
Model village
Model village: a planned settlement built by an employer or philanthropist to house workers in good-quality homes, as at New Lanark, Saltaire, Bournville, and Port Sunlight; also a miniature village attraction.
Modernization theory
Modernization theory, also called the theory of modernisation, explains the wealth and poverty of societies through internal factors such as education, market economies, and democratic structures.
Mods and rockers
Mods and rockers were rival 1960s British youth subcultures, scooter-riding fashion-conscious Mods versus leather-clad motorcycling Rockers, whose 1964 seaside clashes at Clacton, Brighton, and Margate inspired Stanley Cohen's moral panic theory.
Mohawk people
The Mohawk people, who call themselves Kanien'kehá:ka, or People of the Flint, are the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, with communities in Ontario, Quebec, and northern New York.
Mohawk skywalkers
Mohawk skywalkers are Kanien'kehá:ka ironworkers from Kahnawà:ke, Akwesasne, and Six Nations who have worked high steel since the 1886 Victoria Bridge riveting crews, building New York landmarks including the Empire State Building and World Trade Center.
Mohicans
Mohicans (Muh-he-con-neok, 'people of the waters that are never still'), an Algonquian-speaking people of the upper Hudson Valley, distinct from the Connecticut Mohegan; descendants are the federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Shawano County, Wisconsin.
Moldovans
Moldovans, the titular ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova (Moldoveni), 76.7% of the 2024 census population; speak a regional variety of Romanian; identity divided between Moldovanism and Romanianism; large diaspora of about 828,000.
Mole people
Mole people is the label for homeless people living in urban tunnels, sewers, and basements, known from Jennifer Toth's 1993 New York book and from Beijing's large migrant basement-rental market.
Mollie Kyle
Mollie Kyle (Mollie Burkhart), an allotted full-blood Osage woman, survived the 1920s Osage Reign of Terror in which her mother, sisters, and cousin were murdered for oil headrights; her husband Ernest Burkhart poisoned her insulin until FBI-led investigation broke the conspiracy.
Mon people
The Mon are an Austroasiatic-speaking ethnic group living in lower Myanmar and parts of Thailand. Their early civilization is identified in Myanmar, with Dvaravati finds dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD.
Mongoloid
Mongoloid, also called the Mongolian race, is an obsolete racial classification from Blumenbach's 1775 scheme grouping Asian, Pacific, and American peoples; abandoned by anthropology and genetics, and now an offensive slur for Down syndrome.
Mongols (Монголчууд)
The Mongols (Монголчууд) are an ethnographic group of Central Asia's Mongolian Plateau; today they live mainly in Mongolia, China's Inner Mongolia, and southern Siberia, and Chinggis Khaan founded their empire in 1206.
Montenegrins
Montenegrins (Crnogorci), South Slavic ethnic group and titular nation of Montenegro; 41.12% of the 2023 census population. Identity contested with Serbs; language and religion shared, distinctiveness rests on history, geography, tribal society.
Mordvins
Mordvins (Russian mordva) is an umbrella exonym for two Finno-Ugric peoples of the Middle Volga, the Erzya and Moksha, each with its own non-mutually-comprehensible language; 744,236 at the 2010 census, mostly outside Mordovia.
Moriori
Moriori: indigenous Polynesian people of Rēkohu (Chatham Islands), related to Māori, keepers of Nunuku's peace covenant, devastated by the 1835 Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama invasion, and revived through a 2020 Treaty settlement.
Moro people
Moro people (Bangsamoro): Islamized ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, Philippines. Named after Spanish "Moors"; largest groups Maguindanao, Maranao, Tausug; 7.11 million (6.5%) in the 2020 census; history of Spanish, American, and post-1946 conflict.
Moroccan Jewish exodus to Israel
The Moroccan Jewish exodus to Israel was the mass emigration of Morocco's Jewish community, roughly 250,000 people, to Israel between 1948 and the 1970s, mostly in distinct waves.
Moroccan Jews
Moroccan Jews (Yehudei Marocco) are an ancient Jewish community of Morocco, spanning toshavim and Sephardic Megorashim strata, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Amazigh and Haketia speakers, once the Muslim world's largest Jewish community, now mostly a diaspora in Israel and France.
Moroccan labor migration to Europe
The movement of Moroccan workers to Europe, begun through state recruitment agreements in the 1960s and now one of the largest African diasporas in Europe.
Moroccans
Moroccans are the people of Morocco, a North African nation. They are predominantly Arab and Amazigh, speak Arabic and French, and have a large diaspora.