(UN)SUSTAINABILITY OF THE UNIVERSAL CITIZENSHIP CONCEPT: MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
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https://doi.org/10.18485/Keywords:
universal citizenship, theories of citizenship, modern national states, multiculturalism, minority rights, ethno-cultural rightsAbstract
This paper deals with the concept of the universal citizenship created in the context of the 18th century Civil Revolutions in America and France. Civil Revolutions defined the frameworks of a modern national state, with the universal status of citizenship as a main instrument of the unification of citizens. The problem that this paper puts into the center of research is the resistance of the universal status of citizenship to change, according to the changed circumstances of today. The concept of the universal citizenship firmly adheres to the content of the time in which it was created, and multiculturalism is one of the perspectives that make that content unsustainable. Multiculturalism requires that the concept of the universal citizenship include identities that are, as a rule, reserved for the sphere of privacy. The aim of this paper is to clarify what happens when we take some concepts, such as the universal citizenship status, for real, without thinking about the consequences to which such interpretations can lead us. From the standpoint of the multicultural demands, modern national states very often behave like national hegemons just to save the universal citizenship by adopting ”omnipotent powerless” syndrome in response to multicultural demands.
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