Demanding minorities shed their self-defining narratives masks majority state ownership.

Evidence

This raised a new problem, the problem of the outsider, the other, who wishes to retain his otherness; the one who dwells within the frontiers, but does not fully accept the identity, whether it be language, culture, religion, or citizenship, of the unity within which he lives—in other words, what we have got into the habit of calling minorities. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1017 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Full state embrace of one’s nationalist ideology forecloses minority accommodation. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 719; Majorities differ from minorities by claiming the state as their own; Occupied states are muted, forced to mimic the occupier’s preoccupations (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Minorities are outsiders who choose to retain their otherness within a state. #complicates (0.72)
• Minorities are outsiders within frontiers who refuse full assimilation. #complicates (0.72) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1017