Human Rights (Rights to national self-determination)

Among other freedoms and rights the civilized country has to offer to its citizens the right to national self-determination is on the focal point . Immigrants and their descendants want to preserve their national identity even living in a country with the culture much different from that in their homeland . European and American politicians and civil rights campaigners do their best to provide them with this right enacting responding laws and statutes . They also held educational companies for the native dwellers to acquaint them with the cultural customs of ethnical minorities . This helps

to develop tolerance and understanding between these two groups

The history has proved that if the national minority is pinched in its rights and freedoms it often tries to secede from the state . In case people are not given the rights to national and cultural self-determination , they will fight to have their own country where they can live according to their social and religious prescriptions . It is also that the try of secession is rarely made if the coexisting nations don 't have substantial cultural and religious dissimilarities

Politicians , sociologists and researchers often disagree on this item For example , Sabrina

. Ramet in her article The So-Called Right of National Self-Determination and Other Myth ' suggest the right to national self-determination shouldn 't be introduced at all , as giving this charter to one ethnical minority will inevitably lead to the griping the rights of other ethnical groups and of the majority altogether . Giving the example of the imaginary nations Fyromese and Fopogese , she explains that the ethnical groups that coexist on the same territory are often utterly intermixed , so that is impossible to separate them , if one of them demands autonomy , without pinching of their freedoms and charities , as the part of the Fopogese will have to live in the Fyromese-dominated state and vice-versa (Ramet , 2000 ,

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After reading Ramet 's article a lot of questions arise , some of which are : Is it possible to provide the national minorities with the right to self-determination not harming the other citizens , and In what way should it be done ' Y .Tamir in her book Liberal Nationalism suggests the solution . She says that the right to the national self-determination should be individual . Her beliefs is that the national minorities must have the rights to define the meanings attached to this membership , that is , they should be the ones to decide on the cultural practices they wish to adopt and on the ways of expressing them (Tamir , 1993 ,

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She also suggests differentiating the national self-determination and the principle of self-rule , which she defines as the right of individuals to participate in the determination of the aims and the policies adopted by the political group they belong to ' So it 's clear that groups who possess the self-determination rights do not always have the opportunity to affect the global political decisions made by the leaders of their countries

In contrary G .B .Levey in his work Liberal Nationalism and Cultural Rights...