POL 4189 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Individual And Group Rights, Minority Treaties, Polyethnicity
5 Feb 2015
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Freedom of expression: ambiguous because it can mean 2 different things that overlap. The notion of language is part of the nation (but there are some exceptions). A core component: self-determination (nationalism) people with a shared identity make political claims to the nation"s right to rule itself (self-determine). Soviet union and germany (where you had ethnic minorities of each: the protection of minorities rights used as justification. Post-cold war consensus: return of group rights. Two patterns of multiculturalism: kymlicka"s distinction between multi-nation states and polyethnic states. Multination states: states with a history of multinationality, settled. Polyethnic states: states that have within their midst recent immigration. Minority rights: defining the boundaries of the community, kymlicka"s argument is not that some groups should have more rights than others. 2015-02-03: ex: the state must provide elementary education, but in which language? (ex: Czechoslovakia german or czech or slovak?, in belgium in french or. Extermination: mass shooting, death camps, death marches.
