Position Paper for the 1986 Tavertet Spain Colloquium on Cultural Resistance

Robert K. Thomas

Abstract

For most minority peoples in the world today, cultural resistance and cultural survival is dependent on their continuing social survival. Many minority peoples are modernly citizens of large nation-states, surrounded by numerous and very different majority groups. Their continued existence is tenuous, to say the least. This is particularly true of small tribal nationalities in some parts of the world.