&#62; When you say "someone else" in this sentence, you have to mean someone different.<p>I mean someone not part of the cultural, language or national grouping.<p>&#62; I disagree. I believe someone with a different skin color or a different culture would fight for me and protect my rights<p>That may be a nice sentiment, but historically this has not happened (you also conflate skin colour with ethnic, cultural and language identity). Probably the best example where “other people” did not fight for a certain group’s rights is language rights.<p>In Eastern Europe, many Russians are finding their language and identity marginalised.<p>Tibet is another example where the majority does not protect the language, religious and cultural rights of a minority.<p>Other historic examples are the Basque in Spain, Pigmies in the DRC, Tamils in Sri Lanka, people of Chinese ancestry in Malaysia, Kurds in Turkey, etc…