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6 - Linking Minority Rights and Majority Attitudes

Multicultural Patriotism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2022

By
Clara Sandelind
Edited by
Liav Orgad  and
Ruud Koopmans
Liav Orgad
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
Ruud Koopmans
Affiliation:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
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Summary

The question of how to make nationalism inclusive has occupied many proponents of nationalism. Will Kymlicka suggests that a “multicultural nationalism” can be one way to achieve this end. On this model, minority rights are designed to transform majority attitudes of membership in the nation by focusing on minorities’ contribution to the national community. I argue that Kymlicka is too optimistic in thinking that nationalism can underpin inclusionary imaginaries of the political community. Nationalism tends to naturalize the majority culture’s position as the entity that legitimizes the state and thereby has a privileged relation to it vis-à-vis minorities. If minority rights are to transform majority attitudes, I suggest, they are better supported by a form of “multicultural patriotism.”

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nationalismpatriotismmulticulturalism
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Majorities, Minorities, and the Future of Nationhood , pp. 151 - 175
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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