Cosmopolitan cultural mixing does not erase allegiance to an encompassing group

Evidence

In a related critique of Waldron’s position, Margalit and Raz (1995) argue that people today may well adopt (and adapt) a varied range of cultural and social practices but that this does not necessarily diminish their allegiance to an “encompassing group” with which they most closely identify (see also Taylor, 1994). Moreover, if members of dominant ethnic groups typically value their own cultural membership, it is clearly unfair to prevent minority groups from continuing to value theirs. As Kymlicka again observes, “leaving one’s culture, while possible, is best seen as renouncing something to which one is reasonably entitled” (1995a:90). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 931

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: The ‘encompassing group’ concept parallels the notion of social capital and group membership in the reader’s prior notes on social capital creation.

Related

• Multicultural practices do not erase allegiance to an encompassing cultural group. (similarity 0.92)