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  • 6 - Linking Minority Rights and Majority Attitudes

  • Edited by Liav Orgad, European University Institute, Florence, Ruud Koopmans, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
  • Book:
    Majorities, Minorities, and the Future of Nationhood
    Published online:
    12 November 2022
    Print publication:
    24 November 2022, pp 151-175

  • 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.”