¿CÓMO ES QUE NO HAY UN DERECHO HUMANO A TU PROPIA CULTURA?

Abstract

The word culture has, at least, a double meaning, one of them primary and the other supplementary. The first refers to basic abilities and the second to skills. This paper deals with culture in the first meaning, with culture that we acquire simply by being born and brought up in a certain human medium, in the particular medium in which we make ourselves individuals and form ourselves as persons.

A right to one’s culture exists. States sustain the cultures with which they identify and therefore the right of people who have been socialized by them, while at the same time they have been perfectly able to carry out genocidal policies on the rest. Hence in short the schizophrenic reason why a right so essential as the right to one’s own culture has not yet been established until now as a human right.

The problem is not the lack of some particular right that should be added, but rather the articulation of the set of human rights and, particularly, those of an individual character with the collective. This is a problem not posed by human rights themselves, but with the present international order and its underlying philosophy.