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Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander denotes people of Polynesian, Micronesian, or Melanesian origin; in the US it is the census category Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (689,966 alone in 2020, 0.2% of the population), split from the Asian category before 2000 and centered in Hawaii, California, and increasingly the mainland.
Page Six
Page Six is the New York Post's celebrity gossip column, launched January 3, 1977 under Rupert Murdoch and James Brady as the first staff-written gossip section. Known for blind items, tipster networks, the 2006 Stern-Burkle scandal, and the PageSix.com brand.
Paiute
Paiute: Northern, Southern, and Owens Valley Paiute peoples of the Great Basin, speaking Numic languages of Uto-Aztecan; native names Numu and Nuwuvi; history includes the 1889 Ghost Dance, 1954 termination, and 1980 restoration.
Pajeet
Pajeet (also "jeet") is a racial and religious slur for South Asians, especially Indians, Hindus, and Sikhs; an invented Indian-sounding name from a 2015 4chan meme mocking open defecation, now among the most common anti-Asian slurs online.
Pākehā
Pākehā (Māori-language term) denotes New Zealanders of European descent, first recorded 1815; appears once in the Treaty of Waitangi; 3,383,742 people, 67.8% of 2023 census.
Paki (slur)
Paki is a British ethnic slur, a 1964 shortening of Pakistani, directed at people of Pakistani, South Asian, or Muslim descent; linked to Paki-bashing and now called the P-Word.
Pakistani Americans
Pakistani Americans: U.S. residents of Pakistani origin, about 680,000 in 2023 (seventh-largest Asian origin group). Also Asian Americans, South Asian Americans, Urdu-speaking diaspora. Key facts: 254% growth since 2000, 62% foreign-born, $108,100 median household income, contested Asian American identity and post-9/11 discrimination.
Pakistanis
Pakistanis: the people of Pakistan or holding its nationality, 241.49 million at the 2023 digital census, growth 2.55%, mostly Sunni Muslim, Punjabi-dominant, with a Gulf-centered diaspora sending $34.6 billion in remittances in 2024.
Palestinian Christians
Palestinian Christians (المسيحيون الفلسطينيون) are the indigenous Arab Christians of historic Palestine, among the world's oldest Christian communities. Key facts: 11% of Palestine in 1922, about 1% today; four main church families; heavy emigration and 1948 displacement.
Palestinians (الفلسطينيون)
Palestinians (الفلسطينيون) are an Arab people identifying with historic Palestine; national identity formed under late Ottoman and British Mandate rule, was marked by the 1948 Nakba and displacement of about 700,000, and today numbers about 15.2-15.5 million worldwide, per PCBS.
Palta
The Palta were a pre-Inca people of southern Ecuador's Loja province from about 500 to 1470, whose name survives in the South American word for avocado.
Paola Franchi
Paola Franchi (born 1953, Milan) is an Italian interior designer, artist, author, and former model, known as Maurizio Gucci's partner from about 1990 until his 1995 murder arranged by Patrizia Reggiani, and author of L'amore spezzato.
Paper sons
Paper sons (纸生仔, zhishengzai) were Chinese immigrants who entered the United States under false documents claiming citizenship-derived or merchant-family status, a practice opened by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake's destruction of birth records and ended by the 1965 Immigration Act.
Paraiyar (பறையர்)
Paraiyar, also known as Parayar or பறையர், are a Tamil caste of southern India and northern Sri Lanka, historically treated as untouchable; "pariah" derives from their name.
Pardo
Pardo is the Brazilian census color/race category for brown or mixed-ancestry people, one of five IBGE categories. In 2022, 45.3% of Brazilians identified as pardo, surpassing whites for the first time since 1991.
Pardo Brazilians
Pardo Brazilians are people self-declaring as pardo (brown/mixed) in the IBGE census, one of five color/race categories. In 2022 they became the largest group at 45.3% (92.1 million), first since 1991.
Parish
Parish: territorial unit of a Christian diocese under one priest and church (from Greek paroikia), also the civil local-government unit in England, Scotland, Quebec, and Louisiana's county-equivalents.
Parler
Parler is an American free-speech-focused social network founded in 2018, popular with conservatives, that reached No. 1 on Apple's App Store in January 2021 before Apple, Google, and Amazon Web Services deplatformed it after the January 6 Capitol attack; it later relaunched under new owners.
Parsis (પારસી)
Parsis (પારસી) are Indian Zoroastrians, descendants of Persian refugees who settled Gujarat after the Arab conquest of Iran, per the Qissa-i Sanjan; noted for the Iranshah fire at Udwada, colonial-era commercial leadership, and a declining population.
Pashtun tribes
Pashtun tribes (khel) are patrilineal descent groups of the Pashtun people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, nested as zai lineages, aziiz clans, and confederations such as the Durrani and Ghilzai, governed by pashtunwali and marked by egalitarian, segmentary organization.
Pashtuns (پښتانه)
Pashtuns (پښتانه), also Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Eastern Iranian people of about 60 million in Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaking Pashto, governed by Pashtunwali, and divided by the Durand Line.
Patel
Patel is a Gujarati surname from the title for village headman (Sanskrit pattakila), carried above all by the Patidar landowning caste of Charotar, Gujarat, formerly called Kanbi, and by many other groups worldwide.
Pathfinders (Seventh-day Adventist)
Pathfinders is the Seventh-day Adventist Church's youth club program for ages 10-15, official since 1950, with six classes, about 350 honors, two million members in 160+ countries, and international camporees.
Patidar (પટેલ)
Patidar (પટેલ), formerly Kanbi, is a dominant land-owning agrarian caste of Gujarat with Leuva and Kadva sub-castes, about 15% of the state's population, prominent in trade, the diamond business, BJP politics, and the 2015 OBC reservation agitation led by Hardik Patel.
Patrick Gower
Patrick (Paddy) Gower, New Zealand journalist and TV presenter, former Newshub political editor, creator of the Patrick Gower: On… documentaries, host of Paddy Gower Has Issues, now with Stuff and author of This Is The F#$%ing News (2024).
Patrick Kennedy (farmer)
Patrick Kennedy (farmer) was an Irish cooper who emigrated from County Wexford in 1848. He died in Boston in 1858, the paternal great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy.
Patriotic Women's Association
The Patriotic Women's Association (Aikoku Fujinkai) was a Japanese women's organization founded by Okumura Ioko in 1901 to aid families of soldiers killed or disabled in war.
Paula Ben-Gurion (פולה בן-גוריון)
Paula Ben-Gurion (Paulina Monbesz, 1892–1968), wife of Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion and Israel's first "First Lady"; met him in New York in 1915, a trained nurse who managed his health, household, and Sde Boker home.
Pawnee people
Pawnee people: Caddoan-speaking Plains nation of four bands (Chaui, Kitkahahki, Pitahawirata, Skidi), historically of Nebraska earth-lodge villages, removed to Oklahoma in 1874-75; today the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma has over 3,500 enrolled members.
Peer group
Peer group: a social group whose members share interests, social position, and age, studied as an agent of socialization. Covers Harris's group socialization theory, meta-analytic peer influence effects (g = 0.47), conformity mechanisms, and peer learning.