Separatism

Advocacy of religious, cultural, racial, ethnic or gender separation from a big group is referred to as separatism. There are certain groups which refer to themselves as self-determination, independence or decolonization movements instead of an addition to secession movements.

Separatism is equated with racial segregation, religious segregation, and even sexual segregation by some critics. According to the arguments hold by separatists, the separation initiated by choice is not similar to the separation which is enforced by the government.

There are several motivational factors that lead to separation. Of these various motivations the most prominent one is the emotional resentments of the communities that are in rivalry, the resistance posed by the victims of the oppression which includes the denigration of the culture, religion or even the language of the victims, and as a preservation technique of the language or religion that is threatened. Separatism is also followed to protect themselves from genocide and ethnic cleansing. Even if there is a perception stating that, the government cannot support its own group no longer, if the government has betrayed the interests of the group then it can lead to separatism.

Question of Separatism:

There are many serious questions involved in the process of separatism. Of the various questions in there, the essentials questions are how far the demands of the separatist would take toward the full independence? What is the nature of the groups? This question explores whether the groups have got a constitutional and whether it depends on the variety of social, economic and political factors which also includes the response of the government and the leadership.

Response of Government:

Experimenting on the responses of the government, that government can respond in many ways. It can respond by improving the circumstances of the minorities, who are lacking in terms of religious, territorial, economical and political point of view.  The government can allow these minorities to win over the dispute in politics of which they are feeling strong emotions. Government can comply with the demands of the separatist. The government can even settle down for a commonwealth relationship or a confederation where would be only limited ties among the states.

There are various types of the religious separatist groups which do practice a kind of identity politics. There are religious separatist who has the strong belief that they should primarily interact with their co-religionists and withdraw from the larger religious group. On the other hand, the ethnic separatism mainly holds the linguistic and the cultural differences rather than the racial or the religious differences.

Questions:

• Which is followed to protect from genocide and ethnic cleansing?
• Linguistic and cultural differences are mainly hold by ?