"El Arte es de minorias"

Question

This is quite tricky to translate because of the ambiguity of "minorities" in English and, it seems to me, Spanish. "Minorities" in English calls up ethnic minorities, the underprivileged and so on whereas in the above Spanish phrase the sense is more to do with the number of people who are aficionados.

So how would you translate it?

thanks

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Bird, enhorabuena por el killer thread, I chose your great translation;) - 00494d19, Apr 28, 2010

Thanks very much, I didn't get the "se" meaning both of them until you pointed it out though. - lagartijaverde, Apr 28, 2010

Answer 1

"Minorities" in English calls up ethnic minorities, the underprivileged and so on whereas in the above Spanish phrase the sense is more to do with the number of people who are aficionados.

This is true, actually we would say for example,:

El golf es un deporte para minorías. Solo los ricos lo pueden practicar.