Integration can be between us, and it can also be within us, such as when we link the differentiated right and left sides of the brain when we combine the power of linear, logical language with the contextual images of autobiographical reflections, or the integration of the upper and lower regions of the nervous system when we become aware of the body.
For instance, Kymlicka points to the Goldman case discussed above and other religion cases, as well as to claims for language rights, as examples in which group-differentiated rights are required in light of the differential impact of state action (1995, 108 115).
These would be "group-differentiated rights".
This multicultural policy was based on group-differentiated rights for a limited number of large migrant groups that settled lastingly in the Netherlands Entzingerr, 2003).
In response to the increased diversity of migration, we are in fact currently witnessing a departure from multicultural policy aimed at group-differentiated rights for minority groups in favour of general policies aimed at all citizens.
Whether multiculturalism and feminism can be reconciled within liberal theory depends in part on the empirical premise that cultural groups that seek group-differentiated rights do not support patriarchal norms and practices.
Mere toleration of group differences is said to fall short of treating members of minority groups as equal citizens; recognition and positive accommodation of group differences are required through "group-differentiated rights," a term coined by Will Kymlicka (1995).
For instance, Kymlicka's theory of liberal multiculturalism offers the strongest form of group-differentiated rights—self-government rights to indigenous peoples and national minorities because their minority status is unchosen; they were coercively incorporated into the larger state.
Other group-differentiated rights are held by the group qua group rather by its members severally; such rights are properly called group rights, as in the case of indigenous groups and minority nations, who claim the right of self-determination.
This is a genuine dilemma if one accepts both that group-differentiated rights for minority cultural groups are justifiable, as multicultural theorists do, and that gender equality is an important value, as feminists have emphasized.
The justifications for special protections for minority cultural groups discussed above still hold, even in the face of a more cosmopolitan view of cultures, for the aim of group-differentiated rights is to empower members of minority groups to continue their distinctive practices if they wish to.
