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British Chinese
British Chinese are UK residents of Chinese ethnicity, 445,646 people (0.7%) in England and Wales at the 2021 Census, descended from seamen, Hong Kong, Malaysian, and mainland Chinese migration waves, with the highest educational attainment of any census ethnic group.
British diaspora
British diaspora: Britons and people of British birth or nationality living outside the UK, also called British expatriates. At least 4.8 million British-born people lived abroad in 2024, mainly in Australia, Spain, the US, and Canada.
British Indians
British Indians: UK residents identifying as Indian or British Indian, 1,864,304 people (3.1% of England and Wales) at Census 2021; also called the Indian diaspora in Britain; history spans 18th-century servants, post-war waves, East African Asians, and 2023's 253,000 arrivals.
British Jews
British Jews: the United Kingdom's Jewish community, about 300,000 people, 0.5% of England and Wales, continuous since the 1655 readmission, concentrated in London and Manchester, represented by the Board of Deputies.
British Pakistanis
British Pakistanis, also known as Pakistani British people, are one of the UK's largest ethnic minorities, at 1.17 million people in 2011 and about 2% of England and Wales by 2018.
British people
British people: citizens and residents of the United Kingdom, legally British citizens under UK nationality law since the 1707 Acts of Union, and census-wise people identifying with a British national identity, distinct from English, Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish identities.
Britons in India
Britons in India: the British community in the Indian subcontinent, from East India Company employees (from 1600) through the Raj's administrators and nabobs to today's small expatriate population in cities like Bengaluru.
Bro Code
Bro Code: an unwritten rulebook of male-friendship loyalty, popularized by How I Met Your Mother's Barney Stinson (2008 book) and reworked in gender studies by Thomas Keith for sexist bro culture.
Bro culture
Bro culture: social practices of male peer groups addressing each other as "bro", rooted in U.S. fraternity life and linked to homosociality, banter, and, critically, misogyny; British analogue is lad culture.
Broken heart
Broken heart (heartbreak, heartache): metaphor for intense emotional pain from loss or rejection; studied in social-pain neuroscience and embodied literally in takotsubo cardiomyopathy, broken heart syndrome.
Broligarchy
Broligarchy, slang portmanteau of bro and oligarchy, names male tech-billionaire dominance of business and politics, coined by Carole Cadwalladr in 2024 and popularized by Brooke Harrington's Atlantic essay.
Bromance
Bromance: a close, emotionally intimate, nonsexual friendship between men; portmanteau of brother and romance. Popularized in the mid-2000s via films like Superbad; studied as a form of homosociality tied to declining homophobia.
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish-born British social anthropologist at LSE, pioneer of intensive Trobriand Islands fieldwork, author of Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922), and founder of functionalist kinship theory.
Bronze Age Pervert
Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) is a pseudonymous far-right online influencer and author of the 2018 self-published book Bronze Age Mindset, widely identified with Yale Ph.D. Costin Alamariu and associated with the manosphere and dissident right.
Brooke Astor
Brooke Astor (Roberta Brooke Russell, 1902–2007), New York socialite and philanthropist, ran the Vincent Astor Foundation and gave away about $195 million to NYC institutions; her son Anthony Marshall was convicted of exploiting her.
Brown (racial classification)
Brown (racial classification), including pardo in Brazil, the informal brown label for US Latinos and South Asian Americans, and colonial pardo/mestizo ancestry terms; distinct from White and Black categories and defined by phenotype or mixed ancestry.
Brownie points
Brownie points are notional credit earned by doing good deeds or small favors for someone in authority, an American idiom first recorded in the 1940s and often tinged with pejorative irony.
Brownies & Downies
Brownies&downieS is a Dutch inclusive lunch café franchise founded in 2010 by Thijs Swinkels in Veghel, where staff with and without intellectual disabilities work together; about 60 locations, sold to Albron in 2022.
Bubi people
The Bubi are the indigenous Bantu-speaking people of Bioko Island (Fernando Pó), Equatorial Guinea, settled about 2000 years ago, speaking basal Bantu language Bubi, organized in matrilineal clans, and politically marginalized by the Fang majority.
Buddhist views of marriage
Buddhist views of marriage treat marriage as a secular arrangement, neither holy nor unholy, with no canonical wedding rite and monks who bless couples but never officiate.
Buganda clan system
The Buganda clan system organizes Baganda society into patrilineal clans called ebika, each identified by a totem, governing naming, marriage, and land in the Kingdom of Buganda, Uganda.
Bugchasing
Bugchasing is the pursuit of HIV-positive sexual partners to acquire HIV; giftgiving is its consensual counterpart. Rare, taboo practice in barebacking subcultures, shaped by internet forums and transformed by PrEP.
Bugis
The Bugis (To Ugi') are the largest ethnic group of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, speaking Buginese (27 dialects, lontara script), predominantly Muslim, with kingdoms like Bone and Wajo and a large diaspora in Malaysia, Singapore, and Kalimantan; over 7 million worldwide.
Bugis migration to the Malay Peninsula
The Bugis migration to the Malay Peninsula is the centuries-long movement of Bugis people from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, who settled mainly in Johor and Selangor and entered Malay royal houses.
Bukharan Jews
Bukharan Jews, also called Bukharian Jews, are the Jews of Central Asia whose native language is Judeo-Tajik, or Bukhori; most now live in Israel and New York.
Bulgarian refugee crisis (1912–1926)
The Bulgarian refugee crisis (1912–1926) was the influx of about 280,000 refugees, mostly ethnic Bulgarians, into Bulgaria after the Balkan Wars, the First World War, and border changes.
Bulgarians (българи)
Bulgarians (българи): South Slavic nation of Bulgaria, 84.6% of 2021 census respondents; formed from Bulgar, Slavic, and Thracian merger; state founded 681; diaspora in the Balkans.
Bulgars
The Bulgars were Turkic-speaking steppe people driven north of the Sea of Azov by the Khazars in the 7th century; their branches founded Danube Bulgaria (681) and Volga Bulgaria (capital Bolghar), and gave modern Bulgarians their name.
Bullingdon Club
The Bullingdon Club is an exclusive all-male dining society for Oxford students, founded in 1780 as a cricket club.
Bullying
Bullying is repeated aggressive behavior among youth involving a power imbalance, in person or online (cyberbullying). US school prevalence about 19%, with meta-analyses showing school anti-bullying programs reduce perpetration and victimization.