Minority cultural autonomy requires minority control over cultural negotiation, not isolation.

Evidence

On this view, minorities continue to exercise their individual (citizenship) rights within their particular cultural (and linguistic) milieux and, of course, contextually, in relation to other cultural groups within a given nation-state. The crucial element, however, is that members of the minority are themselves able to retain a significant degree of control over the process - something which until now has largely been the preserve of majority group members. The key issue thus becomes one of cultural autonomy rather than one of retrenchment, isolationism, or stasis. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 930

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes multiculturalism’s ‘cultural autonomy’ from retrenchment or isolationism — useful precision on what minority rights demand.