Protection of Religious Minorities

Protection of Religious Minorities

Introduction

Minorities can be defined as a social group within a demographic group that is differentiated from the majority. Minority is more specifically used to define a social class, ethnicity, political party, religious class or an opposition. Across the world minorities from the above mentioned categories are subjected to differentiation and at times discrimination from the majority. The concept of minorities has been in use since the time people started migrating from a place to another. In the modern era it has picked up pace as the traveling resources have increased. People who face problems in their native countries travel to another country for several purposes. For instance the major reason behind migration around the world is to get employed; however there are other reasons as well due to which people migrate. United States of America is a country with a diverse culture. Various people migrate to U.S to seek career opportunities. When they travel and migrate to U.S and settle down, they become national minorities. Even though the laws that are prescribed for minorities internationally and nationally, minorities do not enjoy the autonomy or freedom a majority citizen of a nation enjoys (Castellino, 2010). It is an issue that is causing problems for the minorities across the world. Especially religious minorities face extreme issues from the majority. Most recent example of that can be witnessed in the atrocities by the majority upon the Muslims in Burma.

For a better understanding of the topic, we will approach historical and a brief explanation of the meaning of minorities. So when we talk about minority, we refer to the inapt (Which is not self-sufficient), for blacks and women are the majority of the population, but disadvantaged in many ways within the principle of equality advocated in Article 5 the "highest law." The inapt, for some reason (sex, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and culture, religion, disability, etc.) are victims of some prejudice social. This bias stems from a worldview that believes in existence of people and groups over others. Unfortunately this view intolerant and discriminatory, it is clear throughout the history of mankind, but was abolished in the Constitution. The constitutional protection of minorities, which is to ensure and in order to ensure full freedom of everyone to have their individuality, began with the "bill of rights" - Declaration of Rights, the U.S (Pentassuglia, 2009). With it, individual would have the freedom of expression and religious tolerance. Before that, however, in antiquity, in the Classical period, several minority groups were persecuted, killed and enslaved. The codes and laws many ancient societies favored the powerful and did not give rights to dominated.

Furthermore, these companies were not allowed the rise of caste or class. A person was born, grew and died within its class social. However, we see that these archaic societies, by presenting a simple division of work, often based on only one criterion (such as sex); there was a lot similarity between its members and little tolerance for behavior ...