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Abstract: . . . disintegration; and both feel uneasy about nearby minority neighborhoods. More- over, neither the urban nor the rural communities are anything like as mobile as our more open suburban communities, which have grown up since the war, one of them from seven to seventy thousand people in two decades. Here we find a relatively easy acceptance that facilitates getting established and disestablished quick . . . . . . civic and private lives. And this is where immigrants and members of cultural and racial minorities find equal citizenship or find that they are excluded, patronized and not regarded as full members of the political community. The Elusive Ideal of Equal Citizenship 1053 Page 19 We asked each survey respondent to use again concepts derived from citizen- ship laws to classify who, in your view, can be said to belong to the (local) . . . . . . private lives. And this is where immigrants and members of cultural and racial minorities find equal citizenship or find that they are excluded, patronized and not regarded as full members of the political community. The Elusive Ideal of Equal Citizenship 1053 Page 19 We asked each survey respondent to use again concepts derived from citizen- ship laws to classify who, in your view, can be said to belong to the (local) com- . . . . . . likely to say that people who have lived here for a certain number of years belong to [name of community], but who also might feel less deeply attached to the place, less of an affinity to it. With regard to the prospects for equal citizenship, these data seem hopeful: approximately eight out of 10 citizens in each country say that they consider as 1054 Pamela Johnston Conover, Donald D. Searing, and Ivor Crewe TABLE 3 Membership in the Local . . . . . . and that you respond to that framework. Furthermore, many pushed their social liberalism into communitarianism as they did in Lincolnshire when they suggested that the idea of a decent conformity is central to what they value about citizenship: I mean by being a member of the community you are bound . . . I mean bound to conform by the rules of that [community]whether you live in Lincolnshire, or Sydney Australia, or Nepal. Whichever community you are in, you are . . . . . . practice their party- political , civic and private lives. And this is where immigrants and members of cultural and racial minorities find equal citizenship or find that they are excluded, patronized and not regarded as full members of the political community. The Elusive Ideal of Equal Citizenship 1053 Page 19 We asked each survey respondent to use again concepts derived from citizen- ship laws to classify who, in your view, can be . . . --3000,6,250,3355,64680
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