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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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Secuencia, 2012 El artículo estudia el mercado matrimonial de las familias tradicionales argentinas entre 1900 y 1940, a partir de una muestra de 550 casamientos y del análisis de sus pautas sociales y culturales.
Leandro Losada
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La communauté arménienne d’Issy-les-Moulineaux de 1922 à 1968 : origine, implantation et intégration
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2012 This paper tries to bring a quantitative light as regard to the origin, settlement and integration of the armenian community of Issy-les-Moulineaux, study based on the census from 1921 to 1968, as well as the trade registers of the Seine from 1920 to ...
Michel Garin
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Integration Before Multiculturalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite research which shows that, over the last 40 years, most Western states have steadily enhanced their multicultural policies, on the ground, reality tells a different story. Today, Western governments are closing their borders and reversing long‐standing programmes that welcomed newcomers, whereas immigrants continue to be targets of ...
Avigail Eisenberg
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To Arrange or Not: Marriage Trends in the South Asian American Community [PDF]
, 2008 The idea of the arranged marriage has always seemed exotic yet has fascinated the American public. Recent media coverage of arranged marriages is evident in popular periodicals such as the New York Times Online (August 17, 2000) and Newsweek (March 15,
Ternikar, Farha
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Identity, Nationalism and Integration in Diverse Societies
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, societies are visibly more diverse, and cultural plurality is becoming a familiar even if not always accepted feature of the public space. Paradoxically enough, democratic nations are becoming more polarized and internally divided. How do we address this issue? How can we depolarize our societies?
Gurpreet Mahajan, Anna Triandafyllidou
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Coping with socially sensitive topics discourse on interethnic marriages among elderly members of the Serbian minority in Hungary [PDF]
, 2010 Drawing on the field research conducted in the Serbian community in Szigetcsép, Hungary, the paper examines interlocutors’ oral discourse on interethnic marriages.
Ilić Marija
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Influence of endogamy and mitochondrial DNA on immunological parameters in cattle
BMC Veterinary Research, 2014 BackgroundEndogamy increases the risk of manifestation of deleterious recessive genes. Mitochondrial DNA allows the separation of American Zebu (Bos indicus and Bos taurus) and evaluate the effect of mitochondrial DNA on productive traits of cattle ...
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Nations as Natural Families: From Kin Selection to Multilevel Selection
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In nationalism studies, nations are often viewed as artificial constructs. By contrast, many sociobiologists see nations as natural families or kin groups. They explain altruism and shared ancestry among co‐nationals through kin selection theory, which accounts for altruism towards close genetic relatives. In this article, we refine and deepen
Filipe Nobre Faria, Sandra Dzenis
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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