Individuals' Interest in the Preservation of their Culture
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Chaim Gans
The interest individuals have in the preservation of their culture raises various difficulties pertaining to the meaning of this interest, its justification, and its normative implications. In this Paper, I wish to make several comments on these issues and the relationships between them. I will discuss the meaning of the interest individuals have in the preservation of their culture and the justification of this interest by referring to Margalit and Halbertal’s article “Liberalism and the Right to Culture.” I will then comment on the classification of cultural preservation rights by referring to Kymlicka’s notions of poly-ethnic rights, self-government rights and representation rights. I will conclude with questions concerning the justification of some particular rights to cultural preservation by resorting to Brian Barry’s discussion of Québec language rights and some examples of Israel’s immigration policies.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Article
- Foreword
- Individuals' Interest in the Preservation of their Culture
- Banning Parties: Religious and Ethnic Partisanship in Multicultural Democracies
- On the Persistent Political Under-Representation of Muslims in India
- Economic Opportunities and the Protection of Minority Languages
- Multiculturalism and the Mass Media
- Regulating Modesty-Related Practices
- Is It Really so Benign? Gender Separation in Ultra Orthodox Bus Lines
- Law and Internal Cultural Conflicts
- Contextualizing Multiculturalism: A Three Dimensional Examination of Multicultural Claims
- Is Conditional Funding a Less Drastic Means?
- In Defense of Conditional Funding of Religious Schools
- On the Jehovah's Witnesses Cases, Balancing Tests, and Three Kinds of Multicultural Claims
