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Majority-Minority Constellations: Towards A Group-Differentiated Approach

2 Dec 2020

Examples are the Slovaks and the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, Poles and the German minority in Poland, Romanians and the Hungarian minority in Romania, and the Croats and the Serbian minority in Croatia. [...] It is for the members of the majority to generally decide the content of their cultural essentials, and the process/pace of the change. [...] To these three factors—the nature of the claim, the type of the group, and the degree of vulnerability— one should add the type of the minority group, the nature of its claim, and its cultural vulnerability in order to properly assess majority-minority constellations. [...] Other considerations are the severity of the threat posed to the group culture, the probability of it occurring, and its consequences; the moral value of the culture, its strength and centrality in defining the group identity (e.g., historically-rooted modes of life); and the principle of justice: is cultural protection bringing a more, or less, just society? The central consideration is the norma. [...] 7 A similar spirit appears in the Additional Protocol on the Rights of Minorities to the European Convention on Human Rights, Recommendation 1201 (1993), article 13: “The exercise of the rights and freedoms listed in this protocol fully applies to the persons belonging to the majority in the whole of the state but who constitute a minority in one or several of its regions” (Parliamentary Assembly.
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