The relationship between the state and the minorities

The issue of the relationship between minorities and the state raises many questions, and this relationship takes more than one direction and forms. Most modern countries consist of many different ethnicities, whether religious, ethnic, cultural, etc., unlike the nation-state, which sought the unity of the state and a unified pattern of internal cultural, religious and ethnic life. The diversity of ethnicities within countries is mainly due to the developments that the world has witnessed and the evolution of the way of life. With the colonial expansions and the displacement of individuals, different communities were formed within the colonial countries and within the colonized countries. The development of successive human communications and inventions since the 18th century has also led to an increase in displacement and migration, which has made it difficult to have a society closed to itself with one race or ethnicity. The technological revolution that began at the end of the twentieth century also helped to expand the studies of minorities, the relationship between minorities and the state, and how to contain minorities so that they do not affect the unity and stability of the state. In this context, this paper seeks to try to study the relationship between the state and minorities in terms of defining minorities and ways to manage ethnic problems under the new world order.