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National Bravery Award
National Bravery Award: annual Indian award for children, started 1957 by the Indian Council for Child Welfare, with Bharat, Geeta and Sanjay Chopra, and Bapu Gaidhani categories, presented by the Prime Minister before Republic Day; later replaced by the PMRBP.
National Coming Out Day
National Coming Out Day, October 11, founded 1988 by Jean O'Leary and Robert Eichberg after the 1987 March on Washington; now organized by HRC, observed in the US and Canada, celebrating coming out and living openly.
National Commission for Minorities (राष्ट्रीय अल्पसंख्यक आयोग)
National Commission for Minorities (राष्ट्रीय अल्पसंख्यक आयोग), India's statutory watchdog under the NCM Act 1992 for six notified religious minorities, with civil-court powers, a Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and five Members, reconstituted in 2026 after vacancies.
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), India's constitutional body under Article 338A, set up 19 February 2004; monitors safeguards for Scheduled Tribes, inquires into complaints, and reports annually to the President.
National Commission for Women (राष्ट्रीय महिला आयोग)
The National Commission for Women (राष्ट्रीय महिला आयोग) is a statutory body of the Government of India set up in 1992 to safeguard women's rights.
National Day of Spain
National Day of Spain (Fiesta Nacional de España, formerly Día de la Hispanidad and Fiesta de la Raza): national holiday on 12 October marking Columbus's 1492 landfall; governed by Law 18/1987, marked by a Madrid military parade.
National Debt Repayment Movement
The National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) was a 1907 Korean campaign to repay the empire's debt to Japan, begun in Daegu and joined by about 25 percent of the population.
National Hispanic Heritage Month (United States)
National Hispanic Heritage Month, or Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana, is a US observance each September 15 to October 15 honoring Hispanic American history, culture, and contributions.
National Organization for Marriage
National Organization for Marriage (NOM), founded 2007, a 501(c)(4) group opposing same-sex marriage, led by Brian S. Brown, with a 501(c)(3) Education Fund and disclosure litigation history.
National Organization for Women
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist advocacy organization founded on June 30, 1966, in Washington, D.C. by Betty Friedan and 48 others.
National symbol
National symbols are flags, anthems, emblems, animals, and other representations of a country's identity, legally recognized or established by long public use; they unify or divide, feature in diplomacy, and are periodically redesigned or contested.
National symbols of the Philippines
National symbols of the Philippines: flag, anthem Lupang Hinirang, motto, coat-of-arms, and Great Seal under RA 8491 (1998), plus proclaimed symbols sampaguita, narra, Philippine Eagle, and Philippine Pearl; no official national hero exists.
Native American cultures in the United States
Native American cultures in the United States: diverse lifeways of 575 federally recognized tribes, spanning 15,000+ years, distinct languages, sovereignty, and federal policy eras from treaties to self-determination.
Native American mascot controversy
Native American mascot controversy: dispute over Native American names, logos, and imagery in sports, from about 2,400 US schools to pro teams; covers psychological research, NCAA 2005 policy, Washington and Cleveland name changes, and state bans.
Native American name controversy
Native American name controversy: the debate over American Indian, Native American, Indigenous, Native, and tribal-specific terms for Indigenous peoples of the United States and the Americas, including government style guidance and the self-identification versus enrollment dispute.
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States: 575 federally recognized tribes with government-to-government relations, 9.7 million alone or in combination (2020), defined by tribal sovereignty, the federal trust responsibility, and a history of removal, allotment, and self-determination.
Native Hawaiians
Native Hawaiians (kānaka maoli), the Indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands, overthrown kingdom 1893, over 680,000 nationwide, homestead blood-quantum system, not a federally recognized tribe.
Nativism (politics)
Nativism (politics): ideology that states should belong exclusively to the native group, a core feature of the populist radical right; seen in the Know-Nothing Party and modern anti-immigrant parties like the AfD and National Rally.
Natural hair movement
The natural hair movement is a cultural movement, mainly among Black women, embracing natural afro-textured hair, with waves in the 1960s to 1970s and from the late 2000s.
Navajo
Navajo (Diné, Diné Bizaad) — the largest federally recognized Native American tribe and reservation in the U.S., 27,425 sq mi across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah; 2020 census 423,412 claiming Navajo ancestry; Long Walk 1864, 1868 treaty, 110-chapter three-branch government.
Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation (Diné) is a tribal sovereign in the southwestern United States whose 27,425-square-mile land base in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah is the largest in the country.
Navel fetishism
Navel fetishism (alvinophilia, alvinolagnia) is sexual attraction to the navel, a form of abdominal partialism; about 3% of body-part fetish preferences in a large survey, a paraphilia rather than a disorder absent distress.
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018): Supreme Court of India five-judge bench decision that read down Section 377 IPC, decriminalizing consensual same-sex relations among adults and overruling Suresh Koushal (2013).
Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي)
Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي), 1931–2021, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, novelist, and feminist; author of Women and Sex and Woman at Point Zero; jailed under Sadat in 1981, exiled under death threats, wrote over 50 works.
Near-death experience
Near-death experience (NDE): profound subjective experience reported near death or cardiac arrest, featuring peace, out-of-body perception, tunnel and light, life review. Incidence 6.3–39.3% of cardiac-arrest survivors; explained via NEPTUNE neuroscientific model or dualist views.
Necker cube
Necker cube: an isometric wire-frame cube drawing (Necker, 1832) that is bistable, with perception spontaneously alternating between two 3D interpretations of the unchanged image; a classic tool for studying conscious perception.
Necrophilia
Necrophilia: sexual attraction to or abuse of corpses; a rare paraphilia classified as an other specified paraphilic disorder in DSM-5, with Rosman and Resnick's 122-case typology and varied laws across jurisdictions.
Need
Need (psychology): a biological or psychological requirement whose deprivation motivates goal-directed action. Covers Murray's need taxonomy, Maslow's 1943 hierarchy, McClelland's nAch/nAff/nPow, and self-determination theory's autonomy, competence, relatedness.
Negativity bias
Negativity bias: the psychological principle that negative information has stronger impact than positive, aka "bad is stronger than good" (Baumeister et al. 2001); appears in attention, memory, and impression formation, emerges in infancy, fades with age, and is distinct from loss aversion.
Negging
Negging is a backhanded compliment or subtle insult used to undermine someone's confidence and make them seek approval. Originating in pickup artistry via Mystery and Neil Strauss's The Game, it differs from teasing and gaslighting.