Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Minority And Multi Cultural...

Indigenous peoples, ethnic minority and multi-cultural society: What role in a changing world The Sami people are indigenous people in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russia in the Kola peninsula. Sapmi, the ancestral homeland of the Sami was split and or partitioned during the Sami colonization, modern state creation and border partitioning of states borders in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia’s north. Majority of the Sami population reside in Norway while slightly over 2,000 Sami live in the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Are Sami people ethnic minorities or indigenous people? Who determines the indigeneity and indigenousness, and whose definition counts? None of the two questions raised can be answered in isolation, without considering†¦show more content†¦169. The quest towards ensuring adequate protection for vulnerable minorities within contemporary society is raising new issues about the theory of rights protection especially for the ethnic and small cultural minorities within large multi-ethnic societies (Kymlicka, 1995:2). Preserving national homogeneity and equal treatment for all is incomplete without considering what protection is available for the vulnerable groups within the society. Some liberal theorists, have advocated favour minority protection through differentiated rights (Kymlicka, 1995:2). Differentiated rights for special class of citizens as a measure of protection is unavoidable and justified because, the traditional human rights theory neither guarantees nor provide any solution to the multi-faceted (wicked) problems of vulnerable national minorities and indigenous peoples. 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