Minorities In The United States

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As the famous political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli once recognized in his most well known work, The Prince, it is never easy to create an entity of new origins. The Initiation of a new order of things would best be interpreted and depicted as the establishment of a governing entity. Circumstances of this nature could include either altering the already existing governing entity, or through the creation of a governing entity.
The ways in which a country has established itself have greatly varied from different cases. However, many have contained a united front often in unison with a catalyst in the form of a figure head. In the United States of America George Washington led the revolutionary charge both in battle and in politic, to create …show more content…

In November 2017, The New York Times states that there are approximately “30 million Kurds spread over an area nearly the size of France”. This equivocal land mass is encompassed in several countries. The primary population of the Kurds resides within the countries Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. In all of these countries they are a significant minority, but still a minority none the less. One might think that 30 million people should have some kind of power to match the size of the population. However, through being split up into four different countries, they end up becoming a minority in each country relative to that country’s demographics. Being a demographic minority in a country generally constitutes little relative power in …show more content…

Being split into four different minority groups in four different countries proposes several problems. Because each sector is a minority, they are much more likely to be concerned with maintaining or increasing any political power they have. Consequently the interfusion of politics creates associations with political parties or the creation of new political parties within each individual state. As a direct result of this, political ideologies are likely to be adopted in accordance to the particular nation state they reside within. No two nation states could ever be exactly the same. Thus each one would have to address its own particular problems and desires. Paramount with each nation state following divergent paths, so too would the dived sectors of the Kurds. Each section is thus more likely to act in self interest rather than uniform