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Malawian labour migration to South Africa
Malawian labor migration to South Africa began with the Kimberley and Witwatersrand mines in the late nineteenth century, peaked at 80,000 miners in 1970, and is now informal.
Malay race
Malay race (bangsa Melayu): a state population category in Malaysia and Singapore, one of the Malay-Chinese-Indian-Others groups inherited from British colonial censuses, legally and administratively tied to Bumiputera status and Malay identity.
Malays (أورڠ ملايو) (ethnic group)
Malays (Orang Melayu) are an Austronesian ethnic group of maritime Southeast Asia defined by Malay language, Islam, and adat custom; Malaysia's constitution fixes these criteria legally, and Malays form 58.4% of Malaysian citizens (2026) and 67.4% of Brunei's 2021 population.
Malaysian Chinese (马来西亚华人)
Malaysian Chinese (马来西亚华人) are Malaysians of Chinese descent, about 6.9 million or 22.6% of the population in 2023, descended from late-19th/early-20th-century migration from southern China, with a distinct Chinese school system, New Villages history, and Mahua diaspora literature.
Malaysian diaspora
Malaysian diaspora: the 1.86 million Malaysians living abroad, concentrated in Singapore (1.13 million in 2022), ethnically skewed toward Chinese Malaysians, marked by brain drain and lacking a formal engagement policy.
Malaysian Indians
Malaysian Indians: citizens of Indian descent, about 2.2 million or 6.5% of Malaysia's population, descended mainly from Tamil colonial plantation labour, with distinct socioeconomic standing, targeted programs like MITRA, and multi-party political importance.
Malaysians
Malaysians are the people of Malaysia, officially classified as Bumiputera (70.5% of citizens in 2025), Chinese (22.2%), Indian (6.5%), and Others, a plural society shaped by British colonial-era migration of Chinese and Indian laborers.
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell, Canadian-born journalist and author, New Yorker staff writer since 1996, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and Revenge of the Tipping Point, co-founder of Pushkin Industries and host of Revisionist History.
Malcolm Shabazz
Malcolm Lateef Shabazz (1984–2013), grandson and first male descendant of Malcolm X, son of Qubilah Shabazz; pleaded guilty at 12 in the 1997 fire that killed Betty Shabazz; beaten to death in Mexico City at 28.
Malcolm X
Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, born Malcolm Little, 1925–1965) was an American Muslim minister and Black nationalist leader, Nation of Islam spokesman, hajj pilgrim, Sunni convert, OAAU founder, assassinated at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom.
Male dominance (BDSM)
Male dominance in BDSM is the consensual Dominant role in D/s power exchange. Covers negotiation, safewords, prevalence (2.2% men past-year, Australia), dominant motivations, abuse distinctions, and practitioner psychology.
Male prostitution
Male prostitution: men selling sexual services, historically called porneia in Greece. Regulated via male homosexuality laws in UK/Australia; Belgium granted labor rights in 2024; workers increasingly operate online.
Malian migration to France
Malian migration to France is a labor migration from the Kayes region begun by Soninke men in the 1950s, shifting from circular migration to settlement after 1974.
Malian refugee crisis
The Malian refugee crisis is the displacement of Malians that began in January 2012 with fighting between the government and Tuareg rebels in northern Mali.
Malietoa Moli
Malietoa Moli was a Samoan high chief who held the paramount Malietoa title until his death in 1860, after which a disputed succession divided Samoa.
Maltese people
The Maltese people (Maltin) are the nation native to Malta, Gozo, and Comino, speaking Maltese, a Semitic Latin-script language. Genetically closest to Sicilians, with the largest diaspora in Australia (234,402 claiming Maltese ancestry, 2021).
Malthusianism
Malthusianism, from Thomas Robert Malthus's 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, holds that population grows geometrically while food grows arithmetically, checked by positive checks (famine, war, disease) and preventive checks, tested empirically and countered by Boserup.
Mammary intercourse
Mammary intercourse, also called titjob or breast sex, is a non-penetrative act of rubbing the penis between the breasts; documented in sexology, surveyed in kink-community research, and unique to humans per one hypothesis paper.
Man
Man: an adult human male (biological sex producing sperm), with socially constructed masculinity norms varying across cultures; studied via masculinities research, health impacts, and gender-equality programs.
Man cave
A man cave, also called a mantuary, is a room or outbuilding, often a basement or garage, that a man keeps as a private refuge for hobbies and sports viewing.
Man of the Hole
The Man of the Hole (Tanaru) was the last surviving member of an uncontacted Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil. Monitored by Funai from 1996, he lived alone in the roughly 8,070-hectare Tanaru Indigenous territory, dug deep pits for trapping and hiding, repelled contact attempts in 1996 and 2007, and was found dead in August 2022 at about age 60.
Man or bear
Man or bear: viral 2024 TikTok question asking women if they'd rather be stuck in the woods with a man or a bear, also called man vs bear; most women in the viral video chose the bear, sparking surveys and academic study.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning (Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager) is Viktor Frankl's 1946 Holocaust memoir and introduction to logotherapy, his meaning-centered psychotherapy; over 16 million copies in 50-plus languages, a 1991 Library of Congress top-ten influential book.
Manap
Manap was the title of the head of a tribe, clan, or aul among the northern Kyrgyz tribes, holding the right to judge and lead raids.
Manchu people
The Manchu people, also known as the Manchus, are an East Asian ethnic group from northeast China who founded and ruled the Qing dynasty from 1644 to 1912.
Mandaeans
Mandaeans (Sabian-Mandaeans, Arabic Ṣubba) are a Gnostic ethno-religious minority of Iraq and Iran, about 60,000 worldwide, speaking Mandaic Aramaic, practicing river baptism, venerating John the Baptist, and centered on the Ginza Rabba scripture.
Mandal Commission
The Mandal Commission, formally the Second Backward Classes Commission, was set up on 1 January 1979 under Article 340, chaired by B.P. Mandal. Its 1980 report identified 3,743 OBC castes (52% of population) and recommended 27% reservation in central government jobs, implemented in 1990 and upheld in Indra Sawhney (1992).
Mandan
Mandan: upper Missouri River people of earth-lodge farming villages in North Dakota, now one of the Three Affiliated Tribes (MHA Nation) on the Fort Berthold Reservation; nearly destroyed by the 1781 and 1837 smallpox epidemics.
Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation
The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes or MHA Nation, is a federally recognized tribal nation sharing the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central North Dakota.
Mandinka people
The Mandinka, also called the Malinke, are a West African people of the Mande group living mainly in the Gambia, Senegal, Mali, and Guinea, and descended from the Mali Empire.