HUMR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Minority Rights, Absolute Monarchy, John Stuart Mill
6 Feb 2018
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South africa under apartheid: self identify as members of a minority group, types of minorities: Political: minority status differs by nation, province, region, etc. Ex: francophone are a minority in canada as a whole, however in. Quebec they make up the majority: minorities can address their status by trying to somehow turn themselves into a majority. Francophone people in quebec may support independence from canada in order to give them majority status: minority rights: implies that there are rights that are denied to them; they are not as securely protected as others. Ex: right to marriage for gays and lesbians. Ex: jews, muslims discriminated on the basis that they are not like whites in america: seen to be inferior. Ex: the notion that african americans are inferior to whites not as. Intellectually developed : seen to be less civilized. Ex: indigenous people not seen as fully developed , way of life seems old fashioned: seen as dangerous.
