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    The traditional liberal politics of equal respect is inadequate for accommodating cultural difference.

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    • 1.Charles Taylor's 'politics of recognition' shows that misrecognition—not mere unequal treatment—is a distinct harm that undermines cultural identity.
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    • 2.Uniform liberal neutrality presupposes a culturally unencumbered self, which Sandel and MacIntyre demonstrate is empirically and metaphysically false.
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    • 3.If cultural membership constitutes the self, then identical formal rights yield substantively unequal conditions for different cultural groups.
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    • 1.Will Kymlicka demonstrates that minority cultures lack the 'societal culture' scaffolding that majority cultures receive as an invisible public subsidy.
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    • 2.A framework that structurally advantages one group while claiming neutrality is not genuinely neutral but covertly assimilationist.
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    • 1.The politics of equal respect insists on uniform application of rights-defining rules without exception.
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    • 2.The politics of equal respect is suspicious of collective goals.
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    • 3.Cultural survival and integrity are collective goods that require differential treatment, not uniform rules.
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    An ontologically holist view of collective identities and cultures underlies Taylor’s argument for a “politics of recognition.” Drawing on Rousseau, Herder, and Hegel, among others, Taylor argues that we do not become full human agents and define our identity in isolation from others; rather, “we define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us” (1994, 33). Because our identities are formed dialogically, we are depend
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