BIOL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Will Kymlicka, Polyethnicity, Liberal Democracy
14 Feb 2018
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Three kind of minorities: national, ethnic, and social movements. Three kinds of rights: self-government, polyethnic, and special representation rights. Will kymlicka: multicultural citizenship: the religious wars in europe were resolved by separating the state from the church, and organizing the state around a set of human rights that applied to individuals. He uses culture as synonymous with a nation" or a people": national minorities quebec, natives, ethnic minorities italians living in canada. He wants to distinguish between the two categories, and distinguishes both from social movements . In chapter 3, answers the criticism that granting collective rights would jeopardize individual freedom and can be abused in the hand of paternalistic authorities. He makes a distinction in group rights that would separate legit claims from illegitimate: Internal restriction: it is not permitted so to prevent minorities from oppressing their members. External protection: it is allowed to safeguard minority groups from the dominate culture.
