Minorities and Rights?

Question

How does this work. If blacks are the largest minority right now, but soon to be out numbered by hispanics does this make the hispanics closer to being a "non-minority"? Also, if you have several minoritys including black, hispanic and asian and asian is the lowest minority, does this give asain's more rights?

Answer 1

The term minority rights embodies two separate concepts: first, normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or sexual minorities, and second, collective rights (or special rights) accorded to minority groups.
Civil rights movements often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the basis of membership in a minority group.
There are many political bodies which also feature minority group rights. This might be seen in affirmative action quotas, or in guaranteed minority representation in a consociational state.
Minority rights, as applying to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples, are an integral part of international human rights law. Like children's rights, women's rights and refugee rights, minority rights are a legal framework designed to ensure that a specific group which is in a vulnerable, disadvantaged or marginalised position in society, is able to achieve equality and is protected from persecution. The first post-war international treaty to protect minorities, designed to protect them from the greatest threat to their existence, was the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Subsequent human rights standards that codify minority rights include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 27), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, two Council of Europe treaties (the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, and the OSCE Copenhagen Document of 1990.

Minority rights cover protection of existence, protection from discrimination and persecution, protection and promotion of identity, and participation in political life.

To protect minority rights, many countries have specific laws (for example the Constitution of South Africa), and/or commissions or ombudsman institutions (for example the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for National and Ethnic Minorities Rights).

Answer 2

Hispanic is the largest minority group right now. In terms of affirmative action, it is where there is underrepresentation. So at such and such university you may have a large number of white and Asian students while a very low number of Hipanic and Black students. Therefore the Black and Hispanic students become the underrepresented minority.

Minority is also kind of a reference to the status quo. Women are also considered a minority and white women are in fact the largest benefactors of Affirmative Action.

Answer 3

I don't know where you are coming from with "more rights." Are you supposing that one race/ethnicity has more rights than another because there are more or less of their "kind" around the country? Blacks do not have more "rights" than whites or hispanics or vice versa. There have been some findings that certain "classifications" of people in our country could be "disadvantaged" enough to need help in some ways but it depends on what you think of that. Some states go with that and some do not. Besides affirmative action and some college endowments/grants or whatever you call them when they give you $ for meeting certain criteria -ya, besides that there are no extra "rights" for any group, per se.

Answer 4

Well firstly, you might want to look up the definition of minoritiy. It means the least number. And if you look at demographics, the caucasion population is much closer to being a minority in the United States than those others you've mentioned.

So...the question becomes, what rights do caucasians have?

Answer 5

Rights (in the constitutional sense) mean that everyone is afforded the same protections against actions by the majority.

The whole purpose of constitutional protections is to prevent the majority -- any majority, whether racial or religious or anything else -- from using their position of power to penalize or discriminate against those who have lesser power.

Nobody has "more rights" than anyone else, unless some group finds a way to discriminate against some other group and deny them their rights and protections.

In the context of rights, being in a minority really only has meaning in terms of whether you are able to exercise political power over others or whether others exercise political power over you. And the point of the constitution is to limit how much the majority, any majority, can abuse their power.

Answer 6

do no longer all of us have an identical rights as persons? ought to a team be singled out for further rights? anybody has their prejudices, yet that would not substitute an persons rights.

Answer 7

wow, ignorance still goes forth. Whites in the US are no where near being a "minority" all you have to do is check the census bureau's reports.

Answer 8

1st thing, the hispanic population has already surpassed the black population.

2nd thing, it's not about who gets more rights. It's about equal rights.

Answer 9

There are no "non-minorities"...we are all becoming "minorites"...because we all being replaced by the new minorities coming into this country..understand? One day...there will be no "minorites" cause we will all be so "integrated'..that that term will be outdated....

Answer 10

I think our country is becoming very multicultural, and I think most are ok with that.