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Taiwanese people (台湾人)
Taiwanese people (台湾人) are the inhabitants of Taiwan, descended from Indigenous Austronesian peoples, Han immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong, and post-1945 mainland migrants; key facts include the Austronesian homeland in Taiwan and shifting identity under successive governments.
Tajiks
Tajiks (тоҷик, tojik): an Iranian people of Persian speech in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and the Pamirs; ethnonym from Middle Persian tāzīk 'Arab'; about five million; Sunni Hanafi with Ismaili Pamir minority.
Talahon
Talahon (Arabic ta'al lahon, "come here") is German youth slang for a subculture of young men, often of migrant background, marked by tracksuits, fake luxury accessories, and shadowboxing videos; popularized by rapper Hassan's 2022 song and second in the 2024 Youth Word vote.
Tamil Brahmin
Tamil Brahmins, also called Tamil Brahmans, are the Brahmin community of Tamil Nadu, India. Historically the apex caste with colonial-era educational dominance, they became an urban middle-class caste prominent in IT, medicine, and law amid anti-Brahmin Dravidian politics.
Tamil Jains
Tamil Jains (Samanars, Tamil Samaṇam) are Digambara Jains native to Tamil Nadu for over 2,000 years, numbering 25,000–35,000, centered on Mel Sithamoor, with major Tamil literary works attributed to them.
Tamil Muslim
Tamil Muslims: Tamil-speaking Muslim communities of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Sri Lanka, including the Marakkayar, Labbai, and Rawther groups, tracing their origins to Arab traders who settled Coromandel Coast ports from the eighth century.
Tamils (தமிழர்)
Tamils (தமிழர்), a Dravidian-speaking people of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, homeland Tamilakam, Sangam Age Chera-Chola-Pandya history, about 77 million worldwide, diglossic Tamil language.
Tang ping (躺平)
Tang ping (躺平, lying flat) is a Chinese low-desire lifestyle and social discourse started by a 2021 viral post, rejecting overwork, competition, marriage, and consumption; related to neijuan involution and criticized by Chinese official media.
Tanganyika laughter epidemic
The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962: uncontrollable laughing, crying, and restlessness starting at a Kashasha girls' school near Bukoba, Tanganyika (Tanzania), affecting about 1,000 people, closing 14 schools, and diagnosed as mass psychogenic illness, not contagious laughter.
Tanti
Tanti (Tatwa, Tantubaya) is a Hindu weaver caste of Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha, from Sanskrit Tantubaya (weaver). Traditionally handloom weavers with unusually high Bengal status, now classified OBC in most states but denied SC status in Bihar.
Tantrum
Tantrum (temper tantrum, temper outburst): a sudden, disproportionate outburst of anger or frustration in children, peaking between ages 1 and 4, usually from limited language and coping skills; daily or severe tantrums may signal clinical concern.
Tar Heel
Tar Heel is the nickname for North Carolinians and the Tar Heel State, rooted in the pine-derived naval stores industry; a Civil War-era insult flipped by soldiers into a badge of state pride, earliest attested in an 1863 diary.
Tara Browne
Tara Browne, Irish Guinness heir and Swinging London socialite, friend of the Beatles and Rolling Stones; died 18 December 1966 aged 21 in a Lotus Elan crash, inspiring "A Day in the Life".
Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke (born 1973, Bronx, New York) is the American civil rights activist who founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 in Selma, Alabama; her phrase became the viral #MeToo hashtag in October 2017 after Alyssa Milano's tweet.
Taranchi
Taranchi: sedentary Muslim farmers of the Ili valley (Kulja), about 45,000 of whom, with 5,000 Dungans, resettled in Russian Semirechye in 1881–1884 under the Treaty of Saint Petersburg; ancestors of Kazakhstan's Uyghurs.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Australian-American activist, founded SumOfUs (now Ekō) in 2011, led New Media Ventures 2020-2022, co-founded Golden Gate Institute for AI, and was Aaron Swartz's fiancée.
Target fixation
Target fixation is an attentional phenomenon in which a person becomes so focused on an object or hazard that they steer toward it, a risk known especially in motorcycling.
Task switching (psychology)
Task switching is an experimental paradigm in cognitive psychology in which participants alternate between classification tasks, with the slowdown on switch trials, the switch cost, probing cognitive control.
Tatar (disambiguation)
Tatar (disambiguation): term for a Turkic tribe in the Mongol army (attested in Persian from the 1200s), later a Russian blanket label for Turkic Muslim peoples, and today distinct groups, Volga, Crimean, Siberian, Lipka Tatars, plus the Tatar language of Kipchak Turkic.
Tatar (term)
Tatar: historical ethnonym first naming a Mongolic people of eastern Mongolia (Orkhon inscriptions, 8th century), then an exonym for the Mongols, and today the self-name of the Crimean and Kazan Tatars.
Tatars (татарлар)
Tatars (татарлар), also called the Tatar people, are a Turkic-speaking people of Eastern Europe and Siberia who form the largest ethnic minority in Russia, mainly in Tatarstan.
Tatiana Santo Domingo
Tatiana Santo Domingo, heiress of the Colombian Santo Domingo brewing dynasty and wife of Andrea Casiraghi of Monaco; co-founder of ethical fashion brand Muzungu Sisters; Forbes-estimated net worth around $2 billion.
Tausūg people
Tausug (Suluk) people, meaning People of Sulu, are the dominant Muslim ethnolinguistic group of Jolo and the Sulu Archipelago, historically ruling the Sultanate of Sulu; their language is distinct from Sama-Bajau and closest to Butuanon.
Tavistock Institute
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR), founded in London in 1947, is an independent social science research charity known for sociotechnical systems theory from the 1951 coal mine studies and for the group relations Leicester Conference method; distinct from the NHS Tavistock Clinic and Tavistock Investments.
Tawana Brawley rape hoax
The Tawana Brawley rape hoax: a 1987 fabricated claim by a New York teenager of abduction and rape by six white men; a 1988 grand jury found no evidence, and 1998 defamation verdicts ordered her advisers to pay Steven Pagones $345,000.
Taya Kyle
Taya Kyle, also known through TACK-F and her memoir American Wife, is the widow of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle of American Sniper, a New York Times bestselling author, and founder of the Taya and Chris Kyle Foundation serving military and first-responder marriages.
Taylor Swift deepfake pornography controversy
January 2024 incident in which AI-generated explicit images of Taylor Swift (deepfakes) went viral on X, traced to 4chan and Telegram, prompting search blocks, White House condemnation, and the later TAKE IT DOWN Act.
Tboli people
Tboli (T'boli, Tagabili, TauSebu), an animist indigenous Lumad people of highland southwestern Mindanao centered on Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, known for dream-inspired t'nalak abaca weaving, the Todbulol epic, and ancestral domain rights.
Teabagging
Teabagging: slang for the sex act of lowering the scrotum into a partner's mouth, and for the video game taunt of crouching over a defeated opponent's corpse; popularized by the 1998 film Pecker and adopted by Halo players around 2001.
Team
Team: a bounded set of two or more people working interdependently toward shared goals, distinct from a mere group; defined by membership, interdependence, shared goals, dynamics, and organizational context, with effectiveness studied through cohesion, composition, and, increasingly, virtual and hybrid collaboration.