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There's an entire volume of responses to Okin that is truly worth the read. Being something of a modern liberal myself, Nussbaum's response to Okin and Okin's response to many of the critics are outstanding.

If we are to take seriously the separateness and equality of persons then the concept of ethnicity almost becomes immoral in itself, because it can be construed as an attempt to undermine both separateness by construing all people of a certain ethnicity as being morally tied to each other, and equality by construing certain ethnic groups (an accident of birth) as having more or less value. The project of modern liberalism and arguably modernity and the Enlightenment in general is an attempt to ground morality in universal truths or meta-moral truths that transcend the division created by nationalism, tribalism and racism. The rational and reasonable individual is the unit by which a moral or political system is to deal with and be judged by.

Susan Miller Okin

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Multiculturalism-Women-Susan-Moller-Okin/dp/0691004323