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Post by Rishi Thu May 22, 2014 10:24 am

A third point is the stage of development and immigration in a society. A sense of common citizenship and individual rights comes when group identities have coalesced or are stable at some point during the co-evolution of varied peoples. Europe solved its diversity problem by disaggregating itself into separate nations within which ethnicity became the common ground for citizenship. India evolved the idea of vertical communities split along caste lines. Individual rights are easy to come by within geographical and vertical communities that are homogenous. But nations in early stages of acquiring new groups of immigrants and workers tend to become salad bowls of separate communities (ie, FOCs) before they can be shaken together and become melting pots with common ideas of citizenship. America was a stable WASP nation before Hispanics, Asians, Chinese and Afro-Americans forced it to become a salad bowl once more. Even though Americans are said to value individual rights, American society is not what its lawmakers say it is: there are deep racial, ethnic, religious and class fault lines, and as long as these remain, America will be as much as nation of FOCs as ZIFs. Not for nothing did Samual Huntington expound his idea of a clash of civilisations.

Fifty to sixty years down the line, if immigration stabilises, a common sense of American citizenship will develop. This would be the case with India too.

Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/india/individual-vs-community-why-the-2-ideas-of-india-must-and-will-coexist-1537081.html?utm_source=ref_article

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