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Bumble
Bumble is a dating app founded in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, known for its women-message-first rule, removed in August 2026; parent Bumble Inc. also owns Badoo and BFF.
Bumiputera (Malaysia)
Bumiputera is Malaysia's category for Malays, Orang Asli, and Sabah and Sarawak natives, about 69.4% of the 2020 population, protected under Article 153 and favored by affirmative action since the 1971 New Economic Policy.
Bundling (tradition)
Bundling, a courtship custom in Europe and colonial North America: courting couples shared a bed fully clothed, often separated by a board or bolster, to test compatibility before marriage; survives among Amish.
Bunt (community)
Bunts (also Nadavas), a landholding community of Tulu Nadu in coastal Karnataka, traditionally matrilineal via aliya santana, with recorded history from a 9th-century inscription and bhuta spirit worship.
Burakumin (部落民)
Burakumin (部落民), also called the Dowa issue, are Japan's largest minority, descendants of Tokugawa-era eta and hinin outcastes, legally emancipated in 1871 yet still facing employment, marriage, housing, and family-registry-based discrimination.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), established 1824, is the Interior Department's oldest bureau, administering federal trust responsibilities and services for 575 federally recognized tribes and about 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Burgher people
Burghers (Sinhala Lansi) are a Sri Lankan Eurasian community descended from VOC settlers and Portuguese-era unions; tiny census minority (0.18% in 2012), English-speaking, largely emigrated to Australia after 1956.
Burial vault (enclosure)
Burial vault (enclosure), also called outer burial container: a sealed, casket-enclosing grave structure, distinct from the simpler grave liner; not legally required in the U.S. but often mandated by cemeteries; concrete vaults date to Leo Haase's 1880 company.
Buridan's ass
Buridan's ass, also called Buridan's donkey, is a philosophy thought experiment in which a donkey starves between two equidistant, equally tempting hay piles. Named for John Buridan but absent from his writings, it challenges rational choice theory and free will.
Burke's Peerage
Burke's Peerage: British genealogical reference series founded in London in 1826 by John Burke, recording lineages of the peerage, baronetage and landed gentry; distinguishable from Debrett's Peerage and now owned by Burke's Peerage Limited.
Burkina Faso displacement crisis
The Burkina Faso displacement crisis is the mass forced displacement of roughly 2 million people, a tenth of the population, driven by an armed insurgency since 2015.
Burkinabè migration to Côte d'Ivoire
Burkinabè migration to Côte d'Ivoire is the movement of workers from Burkina Faso southward, beginning with colonial forced recruitment in the early twentieth century and continuing voluntarily after 1946.
Burned Haystack Dating Method
Burned Haystack Dating Method (BHDM), created 2023 by rhetoric professor Jennie Young, is a high-filter online dating strategy using 10 rules, 33 red flag rhetorical patterns, and "block to burn" blocking, spread via a 260,000-member Facebook group and her book Burn the Haystack.
Burusho people
Burusho (Burúśo), Karakoram mountain people of the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, plus a Srinagar diaspora; speakers of Burushaski, a language isolate with Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin (Werchikwar) varieties, traditionally mir-ruled and terraced-farming.
Buryats
Buryats (буряад), a Mongolic-speaking Siberian people around Lake Baikal, live divided across Russia, Mongolia, and China after 20th-century migrations; mostly Buddhists with shamanist traditions, they cluster genetically with South Siberian Turkic groups.
Busby quintuplets
The Busby quintuplets, Olivia, Ava, Hazel, Parker, and Riley, born 2015 in Houston, are the first all-female quintuplets born in the United States and the first all-girl set worldwide since 1969, stars of TLC's OutDaughtered.
Bushra Shaikh
Bushra Shaikh, born 1982, is a British-Pakistani media commentator and former fashion entrepreneur who competed on The Apprentice in 2017 and founded the anti-racism organization Run Racism Out.
Butch and femme
Butch and femme are paired masculine and feminine lesbian identity categories that formed the core of 1940s-1950s US working-class lesbian bar culture, declined under 1970s feminist critique, and persist as queer identities.
Butler
A butler is the senior household professional who manages the front of house, providing personal service and logistics to the principal. The role requires anticipatory awareness and confidentiality.
Buy Nothing Day
Buy Nothing Day is an annual anti-consumerism protest day founded in 1992 by artist Ted Dave and Adbusters, urging a 24-hour buying moratorium on Black Friday each November.
Bystander effect
Bystander effect: people are less likely to help in an emergency when others are present. Named by Latané and Darley after the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder; meta-analytic g = −0.35, attenuated in dangerous emergencies.
C. P. Ellis
C.P. Ellis (Claiborne Paul Ellis, 1927–2005), Durham KKK Exalted Grand Cyclops who co-chaired the 1971 school desegregation charrette with Ann Atwater, renounced the Klan, and became a civil rights activist and union organizer.
C. Thi Nguyen
C. Thi Nguyen is an American philosopher at the University of Utah known for arguing that games are an art form whose medium is human agency.
Cabin fever
Cabin fever is a colloquial term for restlessness, irritability, and low mood from prolonged confinement or isolation; not a formal diagnosis. Also an obsolete 1820 term for typhus; modern sense popularized by B. M. Bower's 1918 novel.
Cacique
Cacique: a Taíno-origin term the Spanish applied to indigenous town and village leaders across the Americas; cacicazgo is the office. Distinct from pre-Hispanic titles like curaca and psihipqua, it became a Crown-validated colonial institution and, as caciquismo, later meant rural boss rule.
Caddo
Caddo (from Kadohadachho, "real chief"): a Caddoan-speaking Native American people of the Red River and East Texas, organized into Hasinai, Kadohadacho, and Natchitoches groups; removed to Indian Territory in 1859; today the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, headquartered near Binger.
Cadet branch
Cadet branch: a line of a royal or noble family descended from a younger son, as opposed to the senior line under primogeniture; also called branche cadette. Known through appanages, heraldic cadency marks, and dynasties like Valois, Bourbon, Lancaster, and York.
Cagot
The Cagots, also known as Agotes, were a hereditary outcast group of south-west France and the Navarrese Pyrenees, shunned as reputed lepers despite being healthy.
Cahuilla
The Cahuilla (Iviatim) are an inland southern California Indigenous people speaking a Takic (Uto-Aztecan) language, organized into Wildcat and Coyote patrimoieties, today on reservations including Agua Caliente, Morongo, and Torres-Martinez.
Cajuns
Cajuns are Louisiana descendants of the Acadians, French-speaking colonists of Nova Scotia exiled by the British in 1755 who settled in southwest Louisiana's Acadiana; their culture centers on Cajun French, music, dance, and food such as gumbo.