What Is Kukathas Claim Of Cultural Rights

Kukathas’s makes the claim that cultural rights are not necessary in order to protect the interest of a cultural groups because individual rights are sufficient in protecting a culture’s broader interest. Kukathas believes that it is unnecessary to change or abandon the established liberal language of individual rights (Kukathas 107), as long as an individual has the autonomy to associate or disassociate with a group (120). A weakness in Kukathas’s argument is that in many cultural groups an individual does not have the autonomy to decide when to join or leave the group because they were born into it, which sometimes creates a stigma associated with their cultural group. This lack of choice hinders their individual freedoms and fails to protect
This is because a stigma is an identifying characteristic associated with a cultural group, is usually negative, and predetermined by society perception of the group, which could lead to stereotyping. When a person is born into a certain cultural group then these stigmas are established at birth. These stigmas can have a negative effect on a person life because they can lead to discrimination, which causes a lack of liberal individual freedoms, hindering them from pursing their definition of a good life. This is because the stigmas can limit a person’s ability to achieve their goals by lowering their belief in themselves and harming their emotional
This is because many groups are assigned at birth, and even if an individual has the ability to leave, there are chances that negative stigmas will follow them for the rest of their life, leading to discrimination, emotional harm, and a difficult time at achieving their perception of the good life. These negative impacts of being assigned to a cultural group at birth will hurt an individual liberal rights, therefore cultural rights should be enforced to protect a cultural group’s best interest as well as the