Integration policies are intended to have the dual aim of providing immigrants with the means to function in the society where they live and develop their potential, while preserving their cultural and ethnic identity, and familiarising the non-immigrant population with the rights of immigrants, their culture, traditions and needs. Integration also appears in documents specifically directed at the protection of traditional national minorities. This paper looks to identify the main cultural traits that define minorities in the institutional language and that are relevant for these integration policies. Language and religion emerge as a widely recognised identity factors in this respect. Other possible cultural identity factors gather around the idea of ethnicity, being more difficult to determine.

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文化特征作为少数民族群体的基本要素

融合政策旨在实现双重目标，即为移民提供在其生活和发展潜力的社会中运作的手段，同时保留其文化和种族特征，并使非移民人口熟悉移民权利，文化，传统和需求。融合也出现在专门针对传统少数民族的保护文件中。本文着眼于确定主要文化特征，这些特征界定了制度语言中的少数群体，并且与这些融合政策相关。语言和宗教在这方面已成为公认的认同因素。其他可能的文化认同因素围绕种族概念聚集，很难确定。