Socials P1
October 7, 2014
Topic: Ethnic Minorities
Delegation: Australia
Ethnic minorities are groups of people with different national and cultural opinions than the rest of the population/people in a country". Ethnic minorities happen over many countries, and is not a good thing. There are many ethnic groups and they are based on religion, culture, traditions and looks. Countries have mistreated, ethnic minorities for a long time but every year it gets worse and its time not take an action on it.People from ethnic minorities have suffered from excision, discrimination and racism for a long time. One of the past UN solutions has been the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities was declared in 1992. This declaration was made to protect …show more content…
The ethnic minority groups should not be able to do the same as all the society. They should not be able to have the same rights as the whole country has because they don't have enough power, the ones with more power should be respected and not treated the same as the others. The Australian Government is not very interested in the indigenous population in Australia because they are not really an important part of the country for them.Their opinions and points of view of things are not really an important for the country. But one of my country's past experiences with this topic has been adapting to external influences. Australia has not yet signed any treaties about ethnic minorities because they don't see this as a problem. Although Australia has not yet signed any treaties, my delegation has many allies supporting them. Some of those allies are Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, India, and Chile. They have been the ones that have helped Australia during times of need. My position for this issue is against it. Australias believes that ethnic minorities don't play a big role on the