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Grandparent
Grandparent: parent of one's mother or father, a kinship role spanning caregiving, demography, and culture. Median age at grandparenthood is 49 (US women); grandparent life stage lasts 21-35 years.
Graphology
Graphology, or handwriting analysis, claims to infer personality traits from handwriting. Founded with Michon's 1871 coinage, it is distinct from forensic document examination and lacks empirical validity support.
Gratitude
Gratitude: appreciation for a benefit received from another, studied as emotion, trait, and expression. Key facts: expressed-gratitude interventions show small effects (g=0.22 vs neutral, nonsignificant vs active controls); cross-cultural meta-analysis g=0.19.
Gray asexuality
Gray asexuality (graysexual, Gray-A) is an ace-spectrum identity for people with rare, weak, or situational sexual attraction, between asexual and allosexual; coined on AVEN in 2006, about 10% of ace individuals identify with it.
Greaser (subculture)
Greaser: 1950s American working-class youth subculture defined by slicked-back oiled hair, leather jackets, hot rods, and rock and roll; related to British teddy boys and rockers, the film Grease (1978), and rockabilly revival.
Great Jüz
The Great Jüz (Ұлы жүз), also called the Senior Jüz, is one of the three historical tribal associations of the Kazakh people, occupying Zhetysu in southeastern Kazakhstan.
Great Lakes refugee crisis
The Great Lakes refugee crisis was the flight of roughly two million Rwandan refugees, mostly Hutu, into Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire after the 1994 genocide.
Great Moon Hoax
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: six fictional New York Sun articles by Richard Adams Locke, falsely attributed to Sir John Herschel via a fake Dr. Andrew Grant, describing lunar bat-men (Vespertilio-homo) and other life; widely believed, exposed September 16, 1835.
Greater Japan Women's Association
The Greater Japan Women's Association (大日本婦人会, Dai Nippon Fujinkai) was a government-organized women's organization of wartime Japan, formed in February 1942 by merging three major women's groups.
Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation is the American cohort born about 1901-1927, also called the G.I. Generation, shaped by the Great Depression and World War II; the name was popularized by Tom Brokaw's 1998 book, not coined by him.
Greek Americans
Greek Americans are Americans of Greek ancestry, over 1.2 million in the 2024 ACS, formed by immigration waves of 1900–1924 and 1965–1980, centered in New York, and organized around the Greek Orthodox Church, AHEPA, and the Greek-language press.
Greek Cypriots (Ελληνοκύπριοι)
Greek Cypriots (Ελληνοκύπριοι) are the Greek-speaking Orthodox majority community of Cyprus, descendants of Greek colonists since the 12th century BC, about 737,200 people or 80.1% of Republic-controlled Cyprus in 2022.
Greek diaspora (Ομογένεια)
Greek diaspora (Ομογένεια, omogenia): communities of Greeks outside Greece and Cyprus. Major waves to the US (1900–1920), postwar Germany, Australia, Canada, and post-2010 brain drain; postal voting adopted 2026.
Greek resettlement of Asia Minor refugees
The Greek resettlement of Asia Minor refugees was a state and League of Nations program that housed and employed 1.2 million Greeks displaced from Turkey after 1922.
Greeks
The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes (Greek: Ἕλληνες), are an ethnic and national group defined by the Greek language, Orthodox Christianity, and communities of the eastern Mediterranean.
Green card
The green card (Form I-551, formerly I-151 and Alien Registration Receipt Card) is the U.S. permanent resident card, rooted in the 1940 Alien Registration Act; roughly 1 million LPRs are admitted yearly.
Greenlanders
Greenlanders (Kalaallit) are the roughly 57,000 people of Greenland, mostly Indigenous Inuit of Thule descent with about 25% European ancestry, self-governing under Denmark since 1979 and recognized as 'a people' by the 2009 Self-Government Act.
Greenlandic Inuit
Greenlandic Inuit (Kalaallit, Tunumiit, Inughuit) are the Indigenous Inuit peoples of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), about 56,000 people in a self-governing Danish territory, descended mainly from Thule culture migrants from Alaska.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace: global environmental campaigning network founded 1971 in Vancouver, coordinated by Greenpeace International (Dutch stichting, Amsterdam), 25 independent organizations in over 50 countries, individual-donor funded, known for nonviolent direct action and the Energy Transfer SLAPP litigation.
Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), British-born anthropologist, husband of Margaret Mead, author of Naven and Steps to an Ecology of Mind; founder figure of cybernetics, double bind theorist, coined schismogenesis and 'a difference that makes a difference'.
Grey rock method
Grey rock method, or gray rocking: a self-protective communication tactic of emotional flatness and minimal disclosure to make an abusive or manipulative person lose interest; anecdotal only, with escalation risks.
Grief
Grief is the anguish after significant loss, usually a death; distinct from bereavement and mourning. Covers symptoms, theories (five stages, dual-process, continuing bonds), prolonged grief disorder in ICD-11/DSM-5-TR, and neurobiology.
Grindr
Grindr is a location-based dating and social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, founded by Joel Simkhai in 2009, listed on NYSE as GRND, led by CEO George Arison, with 1.3 million average paying users in 2025.
Griqua
The Griqua are a people of southern Africa of mixed Khoikhoi, European, and freed slave descent who emerged on the Cape frontier in the eighteenth century.
Griqua Trek
The Griqua Trek was the migration of most of the Griqua people, led by Adam Kok III, from Philippolis across the Drakensberg to Griqualand East between 1861 and 1864.
Grit (personality trait)
Grit is a personality trait defined by Duckworth et al. (2007) as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, measured by the Grit-O and Grit-S scales; meta-analysis shows it overlaps heavily with conscientiousness.
Grit Scale
The Grit Scale is a self-report questionnaire measuring grit, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, first reported by Angela Duckworth and colleagues in 2007.
Groomsman
A groomsman is one of several men attending the bridegroom at a wedding, including the best man; in the UK the role is usually called an usher.
Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking ceremony: a symbolic ritual marking the official start of construction, also called sod-turning; participants turn first soil with ceremonial shovels, contrasting with the ribbon-cutting that marks completion.
Group cohesiveness
Group cohesiveness, also called group cohesion or group solidarity, is the unity or solidarity of a group, with task and social dimensions linked to team performance.