How many countries in the world have a "minority" (13%) president?

Don’t you mean half minority?

There is no minority.

Marina, I’m surprised that you would classify him as “half-minority”. I’m not trying to attack you at all, I’m just curious why make the distinction?

Almost the entirety of the African American community (or the black community, whatever you want to call it) is at least part “white”. I think you would be hard-pressed to find an African American (whose parents were not directly from Africa) without at least one caucasian ancestor.

I guess I’m just kind of confused about what you’re getting at…

I was getting at the fact that when people classify Barack Obama as a minority, they dismiss half his heritage.

I think it is time to do away with the old racist “not one drop” concepts.

Also, I think we are rapidly moving toward a time when a Caucasian candidate will be a minority (unless he or she acknowledges their own likely mixed racial heritage).

Great points! I definitely agree that “the one drop rule” needs to go out of style already.

I see where you’re coming from now. I do think we’re moving toward “white” being merely the plurality, not that that will solve all of our problems, but things will certainly be different.

So, does anybody know the answer?

I’m wondering what (13%) signifies and who nivi is.

i think jm3 was trying to say a president that comes from some group that is less than 13% of the country’s population, like how african americans make up somewhere around 13% of america’s population.

i don’t know the answer right now, but i gave it a GQ because people i know have been asking that too.

Okay. Well, I look forward to learning the answer. /sits and waits

Thanks La c g

Here’s the best info I could come up with.

I do not have the exact answer but as far as I know, only two countries have had an elected ethnic minority national leader at some point in history: Peru (Fujimori) and Fiji (Chaudhry)**. India (Singh) and Bolivia (Morales) could be considered but I am not sure if either count as a true elected ethnic minority leader, Singh was not elected and is more part of a religious minority. Morales is part of the indigenous population but technically, indigenous groups are the majority even though they are very rarely in power.

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Personally, I was surprised to not see South Africa mentioned, but those leaders were not elected either.

IF two years ago the USA was 85% brown people then GW bush would have been a minority president