06-03-2012, 12:24 PM
Here ya go, honey. I'm not normally a fan of cut & paste and usually prefer to use my own words but this is as much as I'm inclined to give right now.
Sociologist Louis Wirth defined a minority group as "a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination."