Multicultural citizenship Will Kymlicka

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We live in a world that is made up of many different types of people races religions etc. we do not live alone, borders are open you can travel and meet people from all around the world. This allows us the opportunity to get to know many people, which allows us to realize that we are all different and to respect one another all must be very tolerant.

Each religion has a different set of fundamental rules and rights. When moving from one place to another we tend to bring our ideologies and beliefs with us we do not leave them behind. There are many different cases as Will Kymlicka mentions in his books Multicultural citizenship, which I will be referring to throughout this essay. As humans we have certain types of needs one of which is the need to belong. Belong to a family, community, group or nation.

Belonging to a certain nation means that this government has the capability and capacity to protect your rights as a citizen of that country. For a government to provide everyone with what they need is impossible. None will be satisfied 100%. All must make compromises. A government that will please everyone will never exist. Why? Because human are unique and diverse. If I may make a certain example, the population is a salad made up of different vegetables and the sauce is the constitution and law, the salad might be mixed but the sauce might not cover everything equally but we are all in the same bowl.
Now whether you want the country to protect your rights as individual (one lettuce leaf) or a member of a group (all the lettuce in the bowl) is the whole issue.

Here, we end up with two different visions of society. One, the communitarian, the second is the liberal. The communitarian would view the individual as being part of a...

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