Cultural Rights in the 20th Century
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Is There a Conflict Between Human Rights and Cultural Rights?
Asabava: It's very difficult to find on the ground a universal law or a universal right, which looks like a universal in practice. Cultural rights are about minorities and theyreabout protecting the ethnic, linguistic, religious and cultural rights of minorities. The phrase is that minorities, wherever they are, should be able to enjoy their culture. For human rights, you don't define the human. There's no definition of what it means to be human. However, as soon as you start talking about minorities, then you have to talk about history. You've got to talk about national histories. So immediately, that notion of the minority starts complicating the issue. Also, the notion of
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