Malagasy people

(noun)

The ethnic group that forms nearly the entire population of Madagascar. They are divided into two subgroups: the "Highlander" Merina, Sihanaka, and Betsileo of the central plateau around Antananarivo, Alaotra, and Fianarantsoa, and the "coastal dwellers" elsewhere in the country. This division has its roots in historical patterns of settlement.

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Examples of Malagasy people in the following topics:

  • The Kingdoms of Madagascar

    • Centuries of intermarriages created the Malagasy people, who primarily speak Malagasy, an Austronesian language with Bantu, Malay, Arabic, French, and English influences.
    • Most of the genetic makeup of the average Malagasy, however, reflects an almost equal blend of Austronesian and Bantu influences, especially in coastal regions. 
    • Other populations often intermixed with the existent population to a more limited degree or have sought to preserve a separate community from the majority Malagasy.
    • However, it seems that the term was used generically to design all the nomadic peoples in the sparsely settled territories between the Merina country and the western coast of the island.

  • Translation Manager

    • But in other respects they are often the best kind of volunteer: people with specific domain knowledge who saw a need and chose to get involved.
    • For example, in Subversion we have a policy that all translations should have at least two people working on them, because otherwise there is no way for the text to be reviewed.
    • When a new volunteer shows up offering to translate Subversion to, say, Malagasy, the translation manager has to either hook him up with someone who posted six months ago expressing interest in doing a Malagasy translation, or else politely ask the volunteer to go find another Malagasy translator to work with as a partner.
    • Once enough people are available, the manager sets them up with the proper kind of commit access, informs them of the project's conventions (such as how to write log messages), and then keeps an eye out to make sure they adhere to those conventions.
    • That way the translators can discuss their work freely, without distracting people on the project's main lists, most of whom would not be able to understand the translation language anyway.

  • Name and Layout

    • When referring to a project by name, people generally capitalize it as a proper noun, and capitalize acronyms if there are any: "MySQL 5.0", "Scanley 2.5.0", etc.
    • Either Scanley-2.5.0.tar.gz or scanley-2.5.0.tar.gz would be fine, for example (I personally prefer the latter, because I don't like to make people hit the shift key, but plenty of projects ship capitalized packages).

  • [PF content: Why People Don't Vote]

  • Gender Differences in Social Interaction

    • For example, feminine people tend to self-disclose more often than masculine people, and in more intimate details.
    • Generally speaking, feminine people communicate more and prioritize communication more than masculine people.
    • Traditionally, masculine people and feminine people communicate with people of their own gender in different ways.
    • Masculine people form friendships with other masculine people based on common interests, while feminine people build friendships with other feminine people based on mutual support.
    • For this reason, feminine people often feel closer to their friends than masculine people do.

  • Capitalism, class, privilege, and oppression

    • These inequalities result from a class system based on increasing gaps in income, wealth, and power between the few people on top and the masses of people at the bottom.
    • Capitalism causes competition, stress, and anxiety among members of the working class and middle class, as people do not have any control over their work and whether they can keep their jobs.
    • Despite the myth that hard work leads to getting ahead and making it, for the most part people have little power to improve their class position.
    • Research shows people are as likely to move downward as they are upward in the class system.
    • Currently, corporate downsizing, the loss of industrial jobs going overseas, the expansion of low-paying service occupations, and the Great Recession beginning in 2007, have combined to result in many people struggling to keep the jobs that they have, rather than being able to move upward.

  • Socioeconomic Factors

    • Depending on socioeconomic factors like wealth, education, or occupation, people are more or less likely to vote.
    • Because of this, these people have the best chance of having their views represented in government.
    • Independently, income has some effect on whether or not people vote.
    • Wealthier people are more likely to vote, regardless of their educational background .
    • Wealthier and better educated people tend to vote more often, participate more in political activities, and donate more money to causes than poorer or less educated people.

  • The Psychology of Persuasion

    • Reciprocity: People tend to return a favor.
    • Social Proof: People will do things they see other people are doing.
    • This experiment was aborted, as so many people looked up that they stopped traffic.
    • Liking: People are easily persuaded by other people whom they like.
    • Some of the biases favoring more attractive people are discussed, but generally more aesthetically pleasing people tend to use this influence over others.

  • The Role of Age

    • Older people are well organized by advocacy groups such as the AARP, which lobby on their behalf.
    • Young people are much less likely to vote than are older people and are less likely to be politicians.
    • As a result, older individuals in the U.S. are seen as having more political power than younger people.
    • Its mission is to improve the quality of life for retired people and people over the age of 50.
    • Barack Obama was particularly noted for his popularity among young people.

  • Marriage and Responsibility

    • People marry for love, for socioeconomic stability, to start a family, and to create obligations between one another.
    • People without a high school diploma are unlikely to marry someone with more educational attainment and people with a college degree are likely to marry people with a similar level of educational attainment.
    • First, there are the groups formed in the process of becoming educated; many people meet their spouses at school.
    • As a result, people spend more time with individuals of a similar level of educational attainment.
    • Happily married people tend to be healthier than unmarried people.