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Most are home to significant ethnic and religious minorities.
The EU has always prided itself on being a community of values that protects minorities and has welcomed the poor and downtrodden.
The EU is, after all, composed of minorities, and it has known its share of poverty and hardship.
Stoking hatred of minorities, fulminating against the press, stirring up the mob against intellectuals, financiers, or anyone who speaks more than one language, were not part of mainstream politics, because enough people still understood the dangers of such talk.
But when today’s populists start blaming “the elites,” whoever they may be, and unpopular ethnic or religious minorities, for these difficulties, they sound uncomfortably close to the enemies of liberal democracy in the 1930s.
From Hitler's attempted eradication of Europe's Jews to the Rwandan Hutus' extermination of the Tutsi in 1994, policymakers balked at intervening politically, economically, or militarily to obstruct such targeted destructions of minorities.
He foresaw “a really stable and secure government in Pakistan,” whose Muslim majority would treat minorities in their midst “in a most generous way.”
Small minorities of Israeli extremists no longer hesitate to use violence to defend, if not impose, their views on others.
But violence elsewhere in Europe, such as the London bombings of July and the brutal murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2004, had already made Europe’s failure to integrate its minorities painfully clear.
In addition to imposing demands and constraints on minorities to join the mainstream, society must be willing to demand of itself that it make room for all its citizens.
What America’s affirmative action programs may not do is set quotas for minorities, as this prevents competition between different groups.
Modern democracies have evolved systems of checks and balances to protect the interests of minorities and to avoid making uninformed decisions with catastrophic consequences.
The same holds true for members of ethnic and religious minorities.
When times are tough, immigrants and minorities become easy targets.
Minorities are thought of as “newcomers” and “tenants” in Romania even among many members of the country’s intellectual elite who often view themselves as kindly “landlords” prepared every once in a while to grant “concessions.”
Casting one’s ballot in parliament to introduce censorship or to deny full citizenship rights to minorities are not democratic acts, even if they follow democratic form.
So it is imperative that strong safeguards are put in place to protect minorities, particularly the Serbs.
China’s declared policy of “noninterference in domestic affairs” actually serves as a virtual license to pursue dam projects that flood lands and forcibly uproot people – including, as with Myitsone, ethnic minorities – in other countries.
That situation is much worse among ethnic minorities.
The resulting decisions could establish clear ground rules to guide future policy toward Europe’s increasingly numerous ethnic and religious minorities.
Indeed, for many nowadays, helping the Syrian rebels is too risky, and might even jeopardize the Middle East’s Christian minorities.
This past January, China, alongside Russia, vetoed a Security Council resolution that condemned Burma’s human rights record and called on the government to stop attacks on ethnic minorities, release political prisoners, and begin a transition towards national reconciliation and democracy.
Among Jews and other minorities, another historical memory may also play a part: the protection of the imperial state.
The reemergence of nationalist, nativist populism is not surprising: economic stagnation, high unemployment, rising inequality and poverty, lack of opportunity, and fears about migrants and minorities “stealing” jobs and incomes have given such forces a big boost.
With large Russophone minorities in Estonia and Latvia, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s justification for annexing Crimea – the need to defend supposedly threatened ethnic kin – plays directly to these countries’ deepest-seated anxieties.
And, as a corollary, smaller parties seeking an electoral foothold have had to target political minorities, many of whom have strongly held preferences and beliefs.
The main beneficiaries of civil rights, by contrast, are typically minorities that possess neither wealth nor numbers.
The dispossessed minorities who have the strongest stake in civil rights play no role during the democratic transition for the simple reason that they cannot normally bring anything to the bargaining table.
The losers in the region are also clear: Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, which feel existentially threatened, and have come to regard their own Shia minorities as an Iranian fifth column.
Highly motivated minorities can and do overwhelm the general interests of majorities who are not seized with an issue.
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