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Generation Z
Generation Z, the cohort after Millennials born from 1997 onward per Pew Research Center, defined by formative technology, no memory of 9/11, and debated boundaries.
Generations of Noah
Generations of Noah, or Table of Nations (Origines Gentium), Genesis 10 genealogy of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth listing 70 nations after the Flood, organized geographically and later yielding the terms Semites, Hamites, and Japhetites.
Genetic sexual attraction
Genetic sexual attraction (GSA) describes intense attraction between biological relatives reunited after early separation, coined by Barbara Gonyo; reported in over 50% of adoption reunions but not a recognized disorder.
Genocide of Indigenous peoples
Genocide of Indigenous peoples: colonial and settler-colonial destruction of Indigenous groups, defined by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention and Lemkin's concept; key cases include the Americas, California 1848–1860, and German South-West Africa, with debate over intent, disease mortality, and cultural genocide.
Genocide Watch
Genocide Watch is an NGO founded by Gregory H. Stanton for genocide prevention and early warning, known for the Eight (1996) and Ten (2012) Stages of Genocide model, alert levels, and the Alliance Against Genocide.
Genogram
Genogram: a clinical family diagram adding relationship, health, and behavioral patterns to a family tree. Rooted in Bowen's family systems theory; standardized by McGoldrick and Gerson (1985); distinct from pedigree and ecomap.
Gentile
Gentile is the standard English term for a non-Jew, from Latin gentilis via Hebrew goy/goyim ("nations") and Greek ethnē; covers biblical usage, rabbinic Noahide framework, Gentile Christianity, and modern connotations.
Gentleman
Gentleman: originally an Englishman of gentle birth below the titled aristocracy, later a moral standard of courteous male conduct defined by manners rather than birth, now a contested gendered address term.
Gentlemen's club
Gentlemen's club: a members-only private social club created by and for upper-class British men, originating in 17th-18th century London (White's, 1693), peaking with 400+ Victorian clubs, electing members by blackballing.
Gentry
Gentry: landowning social class below the titled nobility, especially in England (knights, esquires, gentlemen living on rental income). Also the Chinese gentry. Key facts: post-Black Death political rise, local office, primogeniture, persistence to the 1870s.
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German philosopher and sociologist, founder of formal sociology; author of Philosophy of Money (1900) and Soziologie (1908); known for dyad-triad analysis, the stranger, metropolis essays, and Durkheim/Weber relations.
George Floyd protests
George Floyd protests: 2020 nationwide and international demonstrations after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020; the largest protest movement in US history, with 15-26 million participants, about 94% nonviolent.
George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon
George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (born 1956), British peer and farmer, owner of Highclere Castle, the Downton Abbey filming location; succeeded his father Henry, 7th Earl, in 2001; married Fiona Aitken in 1999.
George Padmore
George Padmore, born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a Trinidadian Pan-Africanist writer and organizer who led the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress and advised Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
Georges Canguilhem
Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995), French philosopher and physician, author of The Normal and the Pathological; theorist of vital normativity, historical epistemology, and major influence on Foucault.
Georgians
Georgians (Kartvelebi, ქართველები) are the South Caucasus nation forming the majority of Georgia, speakers of Kartvelian languages with three alphabets, ancient Colchis and Iberian roots, and a global diaspora.
Georgie Stone
Georgie Stone is an Australian actress and transgender rights advocate who, as the youngest Australian granted pubertal suppression, helped change Family Court law on gender-affirming treatment, plays Mackenzie Hargreaves on Neighbours, and is the subject of the Netflix documentary The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone.
Georgiy Gongadze
Georgiy Gongadze (Георгій Гонгадзе), Ukrainian investigative journalist, Georgian-born, founder of Ukrayinska Pravda; kidnapped and murdered in September 2000; Melnychenko tapes implicated President Kuchma; ECHR ruled against Ukraine; General Pukach convicted.
Georgy Gapon
Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (Георгий Аполлонович Гапон, 1870–1906), Russian Orthodox priest and police-linked labor organizer, founded the Assembly of Russian Factory and Mill Workers, led the 9 January 1905 Bloody Sunday march, and was hanged by SR militants in 1906 after exposure as an Okhrana agent.
Gerald Foos
Gerald Foos, Colorado motel owner who spied on Manor House Motel guests through fake ceiling vents for decades; subject of Gay Talese's The Voyeur's Motel (2016), whose credibility was questioned after property-record discrepancies.
Gerald Posner
Gerald Posner (born 1954) is an American investigative journalist and former lawyer, author of Mengele, Case Closed (1994 Pulitzer History finalist), Killing the Dream, God's Bankers, and PHARMA; he resigned from the Daily Beast in 2010 after plagiarism findings.
Gerard Menuhin
Gerard Menuhin (born 1948), British-American writer and film producer, son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin; Holocaust denier, removed from the Menuhin foundations in 2005 and 2007, author of Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil (2015).
Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer (born 1947) is a German psychologist, ABC group founder at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, known for fast-and-frugal heuristics, ecological rationality, and risk literacy, and for his debate with Kahneman and Tversky's heuristics-and-biases program.
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 1939) is an Australian feminist writer and academic, author of the 1970 bestseller The Female Eunuch, known for her celebrity feminism, later works like The Whole Woman, and controversy over her statements that transgender women are not women.
German Americans
German Americans, Americans of German ancestry, form the largest US ancestry group: about 41 million in 2022, over 12 percent. Key facts include 1683 Germantown founding, peak 1850s migration, WWI anti-German persecution, and rapid assimilation.
German Brazilians
German Brazilians (teuto-brasileiros, Deutschbrasilianer) are Brazilians of German ancestry, settled from 1824 at São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul; speakers of Hunsrückisch; shaped by the Vargas-era Nationalization Campaign and Blumenau's Oktoberfest.
German Canadians
German Canadians, one of Canada's largest European-origin groups (3.0 million in 2021), trace settlement from 1750s Lunenburg through Mennonite, prairie, and postwar immigration, with heavy assimilation and declining German mother-tongue retention.
German colonization of southern Brazil
German colonization of southern Brazil was a state-sponsored settlement program, begun in 1824, that brought German farmers to Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná.
German diaspora
German diaspora: Germans and their descendants living outside Germany, shaped by 5.5 million 1816–1914 overseas emigrants (mainly to the USA), 14 million postwar expellees, and today's German citizens abroad, concentrated in Switzerland.
German nobility
German nobility (Adel): hereditary estate defined by land, rank classes, Uradel vs Briefadel; privileges abolished by Weimar Article 109 in 1919, titles surviving in surnames; ~60,000 name bearers then, ~80,000 today.