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Is citizenship tied to a particular political and moral culture? If so, are citizenship and cultural/ moral rights compatible?

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Is citizenship tied to a particular political and moral culture? If so, are citizenship and cultural/ moral rights compatible? This essay will reflect on relationship between cultural rights and citizenship. However, before thinking about it, one should clearly understand what does cultural rights and citizenship mean. Citizenship is a legal or political status. It also means being a member of particular state. In this sense brings with it certain rights and responsibilities that are defined in law, such as the right to vote, the responsibility to pay tax and so on.1 Cultural rights contain of the right of access to cultural life, right to participate in cultural life, the right to cultural identity, to cultural survival, to use one's language, as well as to access and establish media in one's own language,2 the right to be educated in one's own language and in culturally appropriate ways,3 the right to protection of cultural...

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