The conditions that allowed the small minorities to rule Mexico and South Africa until recently is the Racial group.
These are groups that coexists with other group in a country but are considered more subordinate to the dominant group.
For instance, not until recently, the White, despite been a minority group in South Africa, they were the one that ruled the country.
Therefore, the belonging to a particular race was the conditions that allowed the small minorities to rule Mexico and South Africa
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