how does democracy accommodate different social groups
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Democracy accomodates the different social groups by providing them equality in political, economical and social terms.
- A democratic government also makes some concessions for the poorer sections of society, such as implementing policies, educational quotas etc.
- The economic benefits are being provided to the poorer parts of society to help them boost their socio-economic status so they can lead a dignified life.
- Democracy takes into account social diversity, by considering equality, fair representation for all irrespective of caste, colour, creed, religion, race, language or residence.
- Democracy, also takes into account the views of the minority community. Majority groups are not constraining their views on minorities.
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Some of the conditions under which democracies accommodate social diversities are:
Minority and majority opinions are not permanent.
To make sure that Government functions to represent general views, minority and majority must work together.
It needs to be understood that simply rule by majority opinion is not democracy.
It is also necessary that rule by majority does not become rule by majority community in terms of linguistic group, race or religion etc
Democratic rule ceases to be accommodative for that group or person if someone is barred from being in majority on the basis of birth.
In case of every election in case of every decision, different groups and persons can and may form a majority, that is the meaning of Rule by majority.
At some point of time, as long as every citizen has a chance of being in the majority, only then democracy will remain as a democracy.