DEMOCRACY is based on the simple principle that all citizens must be treated the same under the law. Every individual has the same rights and indeed has the same responsibilities under the law.

WITHIN SOCIETY, PEOPLE MAY SHARE COMMON VIEWS AND INTERESTS WITH OTHERS, BE THOSE CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS, ETHNIC, SOCIAL OR PERHAPS SPORTING. All such groupings are basically tribal in nature.

But forming such groupings, call them what you may, does not give the members collectively, any special rights under the law.

Democracy is based on giving equal rights to individuals. Giving special rights or privileges to groups, however configured, cannot be good. If you start treating one group of people either better or worse than others, it will end in tears.

Therefore:

1. Governance and property rights issues must be BASED SOLELY ON CITIZENSHIP, not ethnicity

2. There must be NO PREFERMENT FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP, BASED ON ETHNICITY

3. Matters of culture and matters of governance are entirely separate, except for the basic right of freedom of expression and belief.