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Gyatt
Gyatt (also gyat) is internet slang for "goddamn", an exclamation of admiration, especially for a large posterior, and a noun for the butt itself; from AAVE, popularized by YourRAGE in 2021 and TikTok by 2023.
Gyeongju Kim clan
The Gyeongju Kim clan (경주 김씨; 慶州 金氏) is a Korean kin group with Gyeongju as its ancestral seat, claiming descent from Silla's royal line; about 1.9 million people belonged in 2015.
Gynocentrism
Gynocentrism: a dominant or exclusive focus on women in theory or practice; counterpart to androcentrism. Used in feminist philosophy (gynocentric feminism, Iris Young) and men's rights discourse.
Gynophillic attraction in straight women
Gynephilia (gynophilia, gynophillic) is attraction to adult females; in straight-identified women it appears as mostly heterosexual or fluid same-sex attraction, documented in Diamond's 10-year longitudinal studies of female sexual fluidity.
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) is the UK policy umbrella for Romany Gypsies, Irish Travellers and Roma communities. Census 2021 counted 71,440 people identifying as Gypsy or Irish Traveller, with the worst outcomes of any ethnic group in health, education and employment.
H-1B visa
H-1B visa: U.S. specialty-occupation work visa created by the Immigration Act of 1990; 65,000 annual cap plus 20,000 U.S. advanced-degree slots, six-year maximum stay, lottery selection, $215 registration, and 2025 $100,000 payment requirement.
H. Rap Brown
H. Rap Brown, also known as Hubert Gerold Brown, was an American civil rights and Black Power activist. He served as the fifth SNCC chairman and later converted to Islam.
Haben Girma
Haben Girma (born 1988) is an American disability rights lawyer, author, and speaker, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School (2013), winner of NFB v. Scribd, and author of the 2019 memoir Haben.
Habesha peoples
Habesha (ሓበሻ) is a pan-ethnic identifier for highland peoples of Ethiopia and Eritrea, chiefly Tigrinya, Tigray, and Amhara groups; attested from Ezana's 4th-century inscription, contested as a unitary identity, prominent in diasporas.
Habit
Habit: an automatic behavior triggered by contextual cues through learned cue-behavior associations. Also covers habit formation (18-254 days in Lally's study), striatal brain mechanisms, measurement, and critiques distinguishing habit from other behavior-change mechanisms.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International is a Christian nonprofit founded in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller in Americus, Georgia, that builds no-profit, no-interest homes via volunteer labor and sweat equity, serving over 65 million people in 70+ countries.
Habitus (sociology)
Habitus (sociology): durable, transposable dispositions linking class conditions to regular conduct, defined by Pierre Bourdieu in Outline of a Theory of Practice and rooted in Aristotle's hexis, Mauss, and Elias.
Hacker ethic
Hacker ethic: informal values of hacker culture codified by Steven Levy in Hackers (1984), six tenets from free information to decentralization, originating at MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club and extended by the Chaos Computer Club.
Hacktivism
Hacktivism, from hacking plus activism, is the use of hacking techniques to promote political agendas. Coined by Cult of the Dead Cow; known for DDoS, defacement, doxing, and conflict-driven state-aligned campaigns.
Hadza people
Hadza people (Hadzabe), about 1,200 hunter-gatherers near Lake Eyasi, northern Tanzania, in camps of ~30 moving every two months; women forage plant foods, men hunt and take honey; ~250 remain full-time foragers.
Hāfu (ハーフ)
Hāfu (ハーフ) is a Japanese wasei-eigo term, short for half-blood, for a person with one Japanese and one foreign parent; alternatives include daburu, mix, kokusaiji, and Amerasian, and usage is debated in Japan.
Haida people
Haida people (X̱aayda/X̱aad), Indigenous Northwest Coast nation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, and southeast Alaska. Known for formline art, totem poles, population collapse after contact, and 2024-2025 recognition of Aboriginal title to Haida Gwaii.
Hair fetishism
Hair fetishism, or trichophilia, is sexual arousal focused on human hair or hairstyles; a body-part fetish classified under fetishism/partialism, diagnosable as a disorder only with distress or impairment.
Hairdresser
Hairdresser: a personal-appearance worker who cuts, styles, colors, and chemically treats hair, related to barbers and cosmetologists; licensed in all US states, about 595,000 US jobs, $17.21 median hourly wage, with documented musculoskeletal and chemical health risks.
Haitian boat people
Haitian boat people were Haitians who fled by sea to Florida beginning in the early 1970s, most settling in Miami; over 55,000 arrived by 1981, facing interdiction at sea.
Haitian immigration to Brazil
Haitian immigration to Brazil is the migration of Haitians to Brazil, which surged after Haiti's January 2010 earthquake; Haitians are now among Brazil's four largest immigrant groups.
Haitian migration to the Bahamas
Haitian migration to the Bahamas: long-standing, largely irregular movement of Haitians to the Bahamian archipelago, 30,000-60,000 residents of Haitian descent, known historically as "The Haitian Problem" since Marshall's 1979 study.
Haitians
Haitians (Creole: ayisyen, French: haïtiens) are the people of Haiti, on the western third of Hispaniola, descended largely from enslaved Africans who won independence in 1804.
Haitians in the Dominican Republic
Haitians in the Dominican Republic are the migrant population and Dominican-born descendants of Haitian origin, over 497,000 counted in 2017, concentrated in agriculture and construction.
Hakka people
Hakka people (客家人, Kejia, 'guest families'): Han Chinese subgroup migrated from north-central China to Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi in five waves; known for Hakka language, tulou dwellings, and global diaspora.
Half-caste
Half-caste is an offensive term for a person of mixed racial parentage, first recorded 1785–95 as Anglo-Indian from half plus Portuguese-derived caste; once a colonial administrative label, now replaced by mixed-race.
Halo effect
Halo effect, or halo error, a cognitive bias where a global impression or one trait (attractiveness, warmth) distorts judgments of unrelated attributes; coined by Thorndike 1920, demonstrated unconsciously by Nisbett and Wilson 1977.
Hamida al-Attas (حميدة العطاس)
Hamida al-Attas (حميدة العطاس), Syrian-born mother of Osama bin Laden; married Mohammed bin Laden in Latakia in 1956, divorced, remarried Muhammad al-Attas, and raised Osama in her second household.
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale
The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) is a 14-item clinician-administered interview measuring anxiety severity, created by Max Hamilton in 1959 and widely used in treatment trials.
Hamilton family
The Hamilton family is an American family of Scottish origin best known for Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father and the first Secretary of the Treasury.