This essay is a critical response to Jeremy Waldron’s essay Minority Cultures and the Cosmopolitan Alternative and Will Kymlicka’s Cultural Membership and Choice on the topic of state intervention , in the form of support, should be given to minority cultures. I argue under a liberal and capitalist context that particular communities (that of which cultures,religious, ethnic and minorities sections fall under) are beneficial to subsidised by governments on historical grounds. This is considering that a government is responsible and a state is legitimate and therefore has borders, or at least definable boundaries.
Firstly, I will discuss both points of views that will later on be critiqued. Kymlicka argues that culture is important to a person's ability to make “meaningful choices”(433) in life, and that one should be able to examine such choices made in life as well as be supplied with the means of examination. Such examination is encouraged under a liberal outlook. Yet being critical of a culture may cause a dismissal of its concepts and traditions therefore people will have common ideals as other liberals. Waldron's paper primarily compares the ideology of , what he calls, a cosmopolitan; a person who lives in the global world and “refuses to think of himself as defined by …show more content…
yet that does not demerit a particular community of it’s worth, especially ethnic communities. Such communities must have a “real or imaginative” sense of “customs, rituals and way of life”(406) that is there history. A culture may have similar attributes, although they do not have to be of the same ethnicity. If people adopt similar social behaviour and ideas they have legitimacy to history in the way these ideas arose into popularity. This is a key part of my argument: history for the sake of
Firstly, I will discuss both points of views that will later on be critiqued. Kymlicka argues that culture is important to a person's ability to make “meaningful choices”(433) in life, and that one should be able to examine such choices made in life as well as be supplied with the means of examination. Such examination is encouraged under a liberal outlook. Yet being critical of a culture may cause a dismissal of its concepts and traditions therefore people will have common ideals as other liberals. Waldron's paper primarily compares the ideology of , what he calls, a cosmopolitan; a person who lives in the global world and “refuses to think of himself as defined by …show more content…
yet that does not demerit a particular community of it’s worth, especially ethnic communities. Such communities must have a “real or imaginative” sense of “customs, rituals and way of life”(406) that is there history. A culture may have similar attributes, although they do not have to be of the same ethnicity. If people adopt similar social behaviour and ideas they have legitimacy to history in the way these ideas arose into popularity. This is a key part of my argument: history for the sake of