Liberalism and minority culture: Reflections on ‘Culture’s in between’: David Bennett and Homi K. Bhabha

2013 ◽  
pp. 46-56
Keyword(s):  
Minority Culture

Migration, Language, Identity: The Journey of Meixian Hakkas from Calcutta to Vienna

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Vollmann ◽  
◽  
Wooi Soon Tek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Minority Culture ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Closed Group ◽  
Group Life ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Close Friendship ◽  
Younger Generation

Hakkas from Meizhou who migrated to Calcutta established suc¬cessful businesses, and then, in the 1970s to the 1990s, moved on to settle in Vienna (and Toronto). Prac¬ticing a closed-group life both in Vienna and across continents, the Hakkas preserved their lan¬gua¬ge and culture while adapting both to India and Austria in various ways. In a series of open interviews with Vienna-based Hakkas, questions of identity and the preservation of a minority culture are raised. In dependence to age, the consultants have very different personal identities behind a shared social identity of being ‘Indian Hak¬ka¬s,’ which is, however, mostly borne out of practical considerations of mutual support and certain cultural practices. As mi¬grants, they can profit from close friendship and loyalty between group members, sharing the same pro¬fes¬sions, marrying inside the group, and speaking their own language. Questions of identity are most¬ly relevant for the younger generation which has to deal with a confusingly layered familial iden¬tity.

scholarly journals Sustainability of minority culture when inter-ethnic interaction is profitable

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Bunce ◽  
Richard McElreath
Keyword(s):  
Minority Culture

Equal Recognition

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Patten
Keyword(s):  
Minority Culture ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Equal Recognition ◽  
Major Argument ◽  
Cultural Justice

This chapter explores the question of under what conditions, if any, are there reasons for thinking that people have a complaint based on justice about the decline of the minority culture? More specifically: under what conditions can people justifiably make such a complaint while adopting a broadly liberal account of what justice is? It examines the implications of neutrality of treatment for the justification of minority cultural rights. It distinguishes between procedural and nonprocedural accounts of cultural justice and, within the former category, between “basic” and “full” liberal proceduralism. The major argument is that neutrality of treatment mandates the latter form of proceduralism, which incorporates a concern for what referred to as “equal recognition.” The second half of the chapter considers and responds to several objections to this defense of cultural rights.

From the Cultured Minority to Minority Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
Robert Archambeau
Keyword(s):  
Minority Culture

Theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-64
Author(s):  
Ana Bracic
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Minority Culture ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
Latino Boys ◽  
Black And Latino

Chapter 2 uses the examples of Batwa in Uganda, black and Latino boys in Oakland, Muslim immigrants in France, and Jews in Vienna to present and develop the theory of the exclusion cycle. The exclusion cycle results when behaviors of the majority and the marginalized minority interact and feed into one another. The cycle starts with anti-minority culture, which gives rise to discrimination against the minority. As members of the majority discriminate, members of the marginalized minority develop survival strategies. Members of the majority often dislike survival strategies used by the minority, ethnicize them, and incorrectly attribute them to the minority as such, and not the discrimination. Such attribution errors feed the already existing anti-minority culture and the cycle continues. After presenting the theory, the Chapter offers a brief overview of the literature on prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup contact, and discusses how positive intergroup contact might help break they cyclical dynamic.

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