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[Review] The Risk of “Indigeneity” and a Realization of Human Rights
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The Risk of “Indigeneity” and a Realization of Human Rights
Speaker: Wilson Melbostad (USA)
Reviewer: Minji Kim
Date: April 26, 2014
"Indigeneity" is a word that may not be found in the dictionary. Indigenous people or things belong to the country in which they are found rather than coming there or being brought there from another country. In plain language, it means "native," and "born within." Wilson created a new word and presented three global examples of indigeneity that sturuggled to keep their identifies in their countries whose cultures have been changing a lot by Industrialism and Globalism: Scots (Scottland), Gypsies (mostly Europe, originating from India), and Orang Asli (Malaysia). He got the question at the end of his presentation whether he took a positive or negative side of being indigenous. He didn't mean that it was particularly good or bad. If the rules of the majority forces and ignores the minorities, and the latter never opens and accepts new other ways, there must be fatal disputes. That is why Human Rights law exists; keeping our own ethnic cultures and the ways of lives to inherit the own routes, and being united in harmony. Thanks to Wilson, we've got a new word of "indegineity" and we could think of how to act in different cultures.
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