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Full Idea
Why should national minorities not have the same powers of nation-building as the majority?
Gist of Idea
Why shouldn't national minorities have their own right to nation-build?
Source
Will Kymlicka (Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd edn) [2002], 8.4)
Book Ref
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd ed)' [OUP 2002], p.352
A Reaction
A 'national minority' is marked by a different language, or a different religion, or both. No one doubts the majority's right to nation-build. Some further principle would be needed to deny that right to a minority. Maybe the minority was there first?
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| 23381 | The status hierarchy is independent of the economic hierarchy [Kymlicka] |
| 23383 | Some multiculturalists defended the rights of cohesive minorities against liberal individualism [Kymlicka] |
| 23384 | 'Culturalist' liberals say that even liberal individuals may need minority rights [Kymlicka] |
| 23385 | Multiculturalism may entail men dominating women in minority groups [Kymlicka] |
| 23386 | Liberals must prefer minority right which are freedoms, not restrictions [Kymlicka] |
| 23389 | Why shouldn't national minorities have their own right to nation-build? [Kymlicka] |
| 23391 | Multiculturalism is liberal if it challenges inequality, conservative if it emphasises common good [Kymlicka] |
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