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Making Majorities - Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States (Paperback)
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Making Majorities - Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
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Majorities are made, not born. This book argues that there are no
pure majorities in the Asia-Pacific region, broadly defined, nor in
the West. Numerically, ethnically, politically, and culturally,
societies make and mark their majorities under specific historical,
political, and social circumstances. This position challenges
Samuel Huntington's influential thesis that civilizations are
composed of more or less homogeneous cultures, suggesting instead
that culture is as malleable as the politics that informs it.
The fourteen contributors to this volume argue that emphasis on
minority/majority rights is based on uncritically accepted ideas of
purity, numerical superiority, and social consensus. Emphases upon
multiculturalism can become ways of masking serious political,
ethnic, and class differences merely in terms of cultural
difference, and affirmative-action policies can isolate, identify,
and stigmatize minorities as often as they homogenize, unify, and
naturalize majorities.
This book analyzes how minorities are made and marked across
cultural, regional, and national boundaries from Hawai'i to Turkey,
a region that encompasses extraordinarily diverse populations and
political developments and that is often regarded as composed of
relatively homogeneous majorities.
This volume details discourses of majority and minority, allowing
exploration of a number of questions of more general concern in the
humanities and social sciences, including: How does one become
officially "ethnic" in many states in Asia? How are understandings
of majority and minority cultures created and shaped in specific
political and historical contexts? How does the state shape the way
people think of themselves? How do people resist, transform, and
appropriate these official representations?
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