Minority-treaty designers never intended protected groups to remain permanently separate

Evidence

De Mello Franco, representative of Brazil on the Council of the League of Nations, put the problem very clearly: “It seems to me obvious that those who conceived this system of protection did not dream of creating within certain States a group of inhabitants who would regard themselves as permanently foreign to the general organization of the country” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2502

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The assimilationist intent of minority protection echoes later integration discourses toward religious minorities.

Related

• Minority-protection systems never intended permanently alienated resident populations (similarity 0.85)
• The Minority Treaties institutionalized the principle that only same-origin nationals deserve full legal protection. (similarity 0.79)
• Minority treaties could single out groups for expulsion rather than protect them (similarity 0.79)
• Minority Treaties functioned as disguised assimilation tools favoring dominant nation-states (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Weak state peoples could not assimilate self-confident minorities #complicates (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 677
• Assimile legal status was never defined because defining it would grant unintended rights #complicates (0.75)
• Minority identity is claimed as a matter of visceral belonging, not abstract legal category #complicates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2500