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North Korean nationalism
North Korean nationalism is the state-sponsored nationalism of the DPRK, built on juche (self-reliance), the Kim family cult, and anti-colonial legacy; it shifted in 2023-24 to a two-hostile-states doctrine abandoning unification.
Northeastern migration to São Paulo
Northeastern migration to São Paulo is the large-scale movement of people from Brazil's Northeast to São Paulo, most intense from the 1950s to 1970s, driven by drought and industrialization.
Northern Ndebele people
The Northern Ndebele people, also known as the Matabele, are a Nguni-speaking people of southwestern Zimbabwe who speak isiNdebele and make up about 15 percent of the country's population.
Norwegian Americans
Norwegian Americans, descendants of the nearly 1 million Norwegians who emigrated to the United States between 1820 and 1920, beginning with the 1825 sloop Restauration, concentrated in the Upper Midwest and Minnesota.
Norwegians
Norwegians (nordmenn), the people of Norway, about 5.6 million in 2026; state records no ethnic data; two written standards Bokmål and Nynorsk; Sami minority; 800,000 US emigrants; now 18.7% foreign-born.
Nostalgia
Nostalgia: sentimental longing for one's past; once a 1688 medical diagnosis of homesickness coined by Johannes Hofer from Greek nostos and algos, now studied as a predominantly positive, bittersweet emotion with well-being benefits.
NotAllMen
#NotAllMen is a Twitter hashtag, first used in 2009, by which men object to perceived generalizations about male violence; it rose in 2014 after the UCSB shooting, prompting the counter-hashtag #YesAllWomen, and resurged in 2021 after Sarah Everard's murder.
Notes on Being a Man
Notes on Being a Man (2025) by Scott Galloway, NYU professor and Pivot podcast cohost, is a Simon & Schuster memoir-advice book proposing a protect, provide, procreate code of masculinity and surplus value for boys and men in crisis.
Nouveau riche
Nouveau riche (nouveaux riches), French for 'new rich', denotes people who recently acquired wealth; used pejoratively versus old money, it inspired Veblen's 1899 concept of conspicuous consumption.
Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse: 1 November 2024 disaster in Serbia in which a renovated concrete canopy fell at 11:52, killing 16; caused most likely by corroded prestressing wires, it triggered Serbia's largest student-led anti-corruption protests and indictments of 13 people including ex-minister Goran Vesic.
Ntokozo Mayisela
Ntokozo Mayisela (Ntokozo kaMayisela Zulu), queen consort and first wife of Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini; civil marriage May 2021, lobola of eight cows and R50,000, two children, 2025 interdict and later reconciliation.
Nubians
Nubians: indigenous people of the Nile valley from Aswan into northern Sudan, with Nobiin and Kenzi-Dongolawi languages, ancient kingdoms Kerma, Napata, Meroe, 1964 High Dam displacement, and current activism.
Nuclear family
The nuclear family, also known as a conjugal or elementary family, is a family unit of one or two parents and their children, the smallest family structure.
Nudity and protest
Nudity and protest: deliberate public nakedness as a political tactic, from the 1903 Doukhobor marches and 1929 Igbo Women's War to Manipur 2004, Uganda, FEMEN, and the World Naked Bike Ride.
Nudity and sexuality
Nudity and sexuality covers how cultures link the unclothed body to sexual meaning: naturism, Elias's civilizing process, the artistic nude, US nudity law, body-image research, and digital consent.
Nuer people
The Nuer are a Nilotic ethnic group of the upper Nile in South Sudan, chiefly pastoralists centered on cattle; Evans-Pritchard's 1930s fieldwork made them famous in anthropology.
Nyamwezi people
The Nyamwezi, also called Wanyamwezi or Banyamwezi, are a Bantu-speaking people of west-central Tanzania, the country's second largest ethnic group with about 1.5 million people.
Nzema
The Nzema are a coastal Akan people of southwestern Ghana and southeastern Côte d'Ivoire, split by an 1893 border along the Tano River and known for the Kundum festival.
O visa
O visa, O-1, U.S. nonimmigrant visa for people of extraordinary ability or achievement in sciences, arts, education, business, athletics, or motion picture/TV; created by the Immigration Act of 1990; no cap or lottery; O-2 support and O-3 dependent subcategories.
Obadiah Bush
Obadiah Newcomb Bush (1797-1851), Rochester schoolmaster, abolitionist, and California Gold Rush prospector; great-great-grandfather of George H. W. Bush; died at sea returning from California in 1851.
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges, formerly Obergefell v. Wymyslo, is the June 2015 US Supreme Court decision, 5 to 4, requiring states to allow and recognize same-sex marriage.
Object discrimination task
The object discrimination task is a behavioral paradigm in which an animal learns which of two or more objects is rewarded, used to assess perception, learning, and memory.
Object permanence
Object permanence: the Piagetian concept that objects continue to exist when not perceived, developing in the sensorimotor stage (milestones near 8, 12, 18 months), with looking-time studies pushing evidence of understanding to 3.5-4 months.
Object relations theory
Object relations theory is a psychoanalytic school holding that the mind develops through internalized relationships with caregivers, especially the mother, developed by theorists including Melanie Klein, Fairbairn, and Winnicott.
Object sexuality
Object sexuality (objectum sexuality, objectophilia) is a sexual orientation involving romantic and sexual attraction to inanimate objects such as bridges or the Berlin Wall; research links it to autism and object-personification synaesthesia, and it is not a DSM-5 or ICD-11 diagnosis.
Obscurantism
Obscurantism is the deliberate prevention of understanding, either by withholding knowledge or by writing in deliberately vague language, a pejorative term dating to 1801 and tied to Enlightenment attacks on opponents of inquiry.
Obsessive love
Obsessive love, best studied as limerence (coined by Dorothy Tennov, 1979), is involuntary, obsessive, typically unrequited romantic fixation on a 'limerent object', driven by uncertainty, linked to rumination and stalking, and not a DSM-5 diagnosis.
Occupation of Alcatraz
Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists of Indians of All Tribes, led by Richard Oakes and LaNada War Jack, occupied Alcatraz Island from November 20, 1969 to June 11, 1971 for nineteen months, demanding treaty recognition and a cultural center; it helped end federal Indian termination policy.
Occupational burnout
Occupational burnout: WHO ICD-11 occupational phenomenon from chronic unmanaged workplace stress, with exhaustion, cynicism, reduced efficacy; debated versus depression; prevented by organizational interventions.
Occupy movement
Occupy movement, also called Occupy Wall Street, was a decentralized 2011 protest movement against economic inequality, occupying Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011, using consensus-based General Assemblies and the slogan "We are the 99%".