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Arranged marriage in the Indian subcontinent
Arranged marriage in the Indian subcontinent is marriage arranged primarily by parents or family matchmakers, remaining the predominant form of marriage in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
Arthur Chatto
Arthur Robert Nathaniel Chatto (born 1999) is a British Royal Marines officer, grandson of Princess Margaret and great-nephew of Queen Elizabeth II; he rowed 2,000 miles around Britain in 2020 and is 31st in line to the throne.
Arthur de Gobineau
Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), French diplomat and writer; author of Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (1853-55); his racial theory of history, spread by Schemann and Chamberlain, fed Pan-Germanism and Nazi ideology.
Arthur MacArthur IV
Arthur MacArthur IV (born February 21, 1938, Manila) is the only child of General Douglas MacArthur and Jean MacArthur, raised at the Manila Hotel, and a private figure who made a rare 2025 Battle of Manila anniversary statement.
Arun Manilal Gandhi
Arun Manilal Gandhi (1934-2023), also Arun Gandhi, Indian American peace activist, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi; founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence and the Season for Nonviolence.
Aryan Nations
Aryan Nations, also the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, was Richard Butler's Christian Identity and neo-Nazi white supremacist group at Hayden Lake, Idaho, from the mid-1970s; it lost its compound in a 2000 lawsuit and collapsed after his 2004 death.
Aryan race
Aryan race: obsolete pseudoscientific concept racializing "Aryan" (ārya, airya), originally a linguistic self-designation of Indo-Iranian peoples; developed by Gobineau and philology, codified in Nazi law, scientifically refuted.
Asch conformity experiments
Asch conformity experiments: Solomon Asch's 1951–1956 line-judgment studies (Asch paradigm) showing unanimous confederate majorities led subjects to give obviously wrong answers in 36.8% of trials; dissent, group size, and culture moderate the effect.
Asexuality
Asexuality (ace) is a sexual orientation of little or no sexual attraction, distinct from celibacy and HSDD. About 1% prevalence; most asexuals are romantic; AVEN founded 2001; split attraction model distinguishes romantic orientation.
Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence
Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence: research finding that Ashkenazi Jews average roughly half to one standard deviation above non-Jewish whites on IQ, verbally tilted, with contested genetic (Cochran-Harpending) versus cultural explanations.
Ashkenazi Jews (אשכנזים)
Ashkenazi Jews (אשכנזים, Ashkenazim) are the largest Jewish ethnic group, descended from medieval Rhineland communities; about 10 million people, roughly half European and half Middle Eastern ancestry, Yiddish-speaking heritage.
Ashleigh Banfield
Ashleigh Banfield is a Canadian-American broadcast journalist and anchor. She has worked for networks including MSNBC, CNN, and NewsNation, and launched the Drop Dead Serious podcast in 2025.
Ashley Alexandra Dupré
Ashley Alexandra Dupré (born Ashley Youmans, 1985), alias "Kristen" of the Emperor's Club VIP, the escort linked to Governor Eliot Spitzer's 2008 resignation; later a New York Post advice columnist and singer, now known as Ashley Earle.
Ashley Madison
Ashley Madison: Toronto-founded (2002) Canadian discreet-dating service for people seeking affairs, run by Ruby Corp (formerly Avid Life Media); credit-based payments, the 2015 Impact Team breach exposing 36 million accounts, FTC settlement, and fembot controversy.
Ashoka (non-profit organization)
Ashoka (non-profit): international 501(c)(3) founded 1980 by Bill Drayton, distinct from Ashoka University; pioneered social entrepreneurship, elects 4,000+ Ashoka Fellows in 99 countries, HQ Arlington, Virginia.
Asia Rose Simpson
Asia Rose Simpson, American-Filipino beauty queen from Hobbs, New Mexico and Quezon City; Miss World Philippines 2026 winner and Miss World 2026 Top 12 finalist; SED youth sports-and-dance advocate.
Asian
Asian: a racial and ethnic classification, notably the US OMB category for people with origins in Central, East, Southeast, or South Asia, and a contested pan-ethnic identity whose boundaries differ by country, era, and measurement practice.
Asian Americans
Asian Americans: U.S. residents with roots in East Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent; 24.8 million people (7% of the U.S.) in 2023, term coined in 1968, fastest-growing major racial group.
Asian baby girl
Asian baby girl (ABG), originally Asian Baby Gangster, is slang for a young Asian American woman with a bold, heavily made-up aesthetic, originating in 1980s-1990s California youth culture and later spread and commodified via YouTube, Subtle Asian Traits, and TikTok.
Asian fetish
Asian fetish, or "yellow fever", is sexualized objectification and stereotyping of East and Southeast Asian people, especially women. Rooted in U.S. military presence and Lotus Blossom/Dragon Lady media tropes; linked to depressive symptoms and debated as preference versus racial fetish.
Asian people
Asian people: a broad classification for people with origins in Asia, defined in US census terms as the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent; covers East, South, and Southeast Asian groups whose boundaries and usefulness are contested.
Asjad Raza Khan
Asjad Raza Khan (Muhammad Munawwar Raza Muhamid, born 1970, Bareilly) is an Indian Barelvi scholar, son and successor of Akhtar Raza Khan, Chief Qadi of India at Markazi Dar al-Qada and chair of All India Jamaat Raza e Mustafa.
Asmat people
Asmat people, indigenous Papuan hunter-gatherers of Southwest Papua, Indonesia (Asmat-Kamoro languages); about 70,000 people in 220+ villages, known for woodcarving, bis poles, and former headhunting, contacted permanently from 1953.
ASMR
ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) is a pleasant tingling sensation starting at the scalp and spreading down the spine, with relaxation, triggered by whispering, tapping, and personal attention; the name was coined by Jennifer Allen in 2010.
Asociality
Asociality is reduced desire for social connection and initiation of social interaction, a negative symptom of schizophrenia; distinct from antisocial behavior, it also occurs in schizoid personality disorder and autism.
Assamese people
Assamese people (Asomiya) are the Indo-Aryan-speaking community of Assam, India, shaped by Ahom rule from 1228, colonial Bengali language conflict, migration, classical language status (2024), and the NRC citizenship debate.
Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard), Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member, convicted 1977 of killing a NJ trooper, escaped prison 1979, lived in Cuban asylum from 1984, FBI first female Most Wanted Terrorist; died 2025 in Havana at 78.
Assembly of the Poor
The Assembly of the Poor (Thai: Samacha Khon Jon) is a Thai poor people's and peasant movement founded at Thammasat University, Bangkok, in 1995, best known for its 99-day protest before Government House in 1997.
Assessment center
An assessment center is a standardized personnel evaluation method in which multiple trained assessors rate candidates across simulated job exercises, used worldwide for selection, promotion, and development.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was an American grassroots organization founded in 1970 in Little Rock, Arkansas, that advocated for low- and moderate-income families.