That was the beginning of an uprising which was crushed by Great Britain the following year. Ethnic and Religious Diversity . Feature number seven is the question of diversity. So long as the Arab world was under the Ottoman rule, there was a traditional formula for managing the society. Members of ethnic and religious minorities were told they were full-fledged citizens like everyone else.
Citizenship is based on rights of birth.
A country trying to modernize offers citizenship, trying to democratize no matter how incomplete. However, in each state this liberal age would either come to an end or be negated altogether. They found themselves being marginalized and dispossessed. Many members of these minority groups reluctantly began to protest, raising their voices to make their demands and their legitimate rights heard. That adds, again, to further distortion in class formation and to further draining of resources.