Administrative Tools in the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Ethnic Minorities

Type Conference Paper - Ethnicity, Confession and Intercultural Dialogue at the European Union’s East Border
Title Administrative Tools in the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Ethnic Minorities
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
City Oradea
Country/State Romania
URL http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/12035320.pdf#page=48
Abstract
Ethnicity and religious confession are concepts around which discussion
and controversy arise, generating emotions and feelings of extreme intensity. Each of us belongs
to such communities. By default, there is a strong pressure on us to be subjective. Intercultural
dialogue can be successfully provided where a community that is aware of the others comes to
communicate, to cooperate, and to build the structure of a multicultural society. Studies have
shown that ethnic and religious diversity is poor when missing openness to other communities.
On the other hand, this diversity, as it is the case throughout Central and South-Eastern
Europe, reveals the less desirable realities. Today we are talking about discrimination,
marginalization, low-status minorities, peripheral societies, inequitable distribution of
resources; therefore, we can conclude that the majority-minority relations management highlights
the demographic aspect (quantity) and the sociological aspect, i.e. the distribution of authority
and power.

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