¿Qué derechos para las minorías culturales?

Abstract

Michel Walzer points to the kind of conflicts that arouse between parochial groups and the body of citizens (the liberal democratic state) when facing the problem of group rights. According to him this kind of conflicts are manegeable depending on the features of groups. Thus, inward pluralized groups are able to reconise the plural identities and loyalties of its memebers and, as it follows, its accomodation causes no problem in democratic societies. The problem lies, still, in totalized and closed groups. Here there is sheer incompability, and thus settlement is much more complex. In fact, political theory has no principled answer for this problem. Walzer suggest a guide for pragmatic solutions: as far as these groups are not a threat for the democratic order that allows tolerance, they should be tolerated, and even supported in their reproduction. On the contrary, when these groups become a threat to the democratic arrangement they should by fighted against.