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Middleman minority

A middleman minority is a minority population whose main occupations link producers and consumers are traders, moneylenders, service providers, etc. This often results in the minority having a disproportionately large role in trade, finance, or commerce, without holding the significant political power associated with a dominant minority.

Examples
; In Africa • Indians in East Africa, especially British Commonwealth countries • Indians in UgandaIndians in KenyaIndians in TanzaniaIgbos in Nigeria • In South Africa: • Indian South AfricansCape MalaysSyrians and Lebanese in West AfricaKorean Americans • Chinese Americans • Chinese Americans in the Mississippi DeltaGreek Americans • The majority of the 19th and early 20th centuries Middle Eastern immigrants to Brazil (Lebanese, Syrians, etc., collectively called "arabes" or "turcos", the latter term because they came from the Ottoman Empire) were peddlers, merchants and other types of non-"producers". ; In West Asia • Ottoman GreeksHadhrami ArabsArmenians in the Ottoman EmpireArmenians in Baku during the Russian EmpirePersian Armenians in Safavid dynastyAzerbaijanis during the Imperial era of Iran (16th–20th centuries) and in contemporary Iran ;In East and Southeast Asia • Particular Han Chinese subgroups in modern-day ChinaMin-speaking peopleWu-speaking peopleCantonese peopleHakka peopleKoreans in Manchuria in the late Qing Dynasty era and in modern-day Northeast ChinaHui people in ChinaChinese in Mongolia during Qing ruleChinese in Southeast AsiaThai ChineseChinese IndonesiansMalaysian ChinesePeranakan ChineseIndians in Southeast AsiaBugis and Minangkabau in Indonesia and Malaysia ;Elsewhere • Indo-FijiansEuropean JewsVietnamese in the Czech Republic ==See also==
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