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May 27, 2019 · The notions of multilateralism (international) and multiculturalism (intra-national) dominated the political scene of the northern hemisphere mainly (Europe, America and, to some extent, also northern Asia), after the World Wars and after decolonisation respectively, throughout the twentieth century.
- Manuela Guilherme
- 2019
- Overview
- Multiculturalism as a challenge to traditional liberalism
- Multiculturalism’s impact on education
multiculturalism, the view that cultures, races, and ethnicities, particularly those of minority groups, deserve special acknowledgment of their differences within a dominant political culture.
That acknowledgment can take the forms of recognition of contributions to the cultural life of the political community as a whole, a demand for special protection under the law for certain cultural groups, or autonomous rights of governance for certain cultures; identity politics may be tied to each of these actions. Multiculturalism is both a response to the fact of cultural pluralism in modern democracies and a way of compensating cultural groups for past exclusion, discrimination, and oppression. Most modern democracies comprise members with diverse cultural viewpoints, practices, and contributions. Many minority cultural groups have experienced exclusion or the denigration of their contributions and identities in the past. Multiculturalism seeks the inclusion of the views and contributions of diverse members of society while maintaining respect for their differences and withholding the demand for their assimilation into the dominant culture.
Multiculturalism stands as a challenge to liberal democracy. In liberal democracies, all citizens should be treated equally under the law by abstracting the common identity of “citizen” from the real social, cultural, political, and economic positions and identities of real members of society. That leads to a tendency to homogenize the collective of citizens and assume a common political culture that all participate in. However, that abstract view ignores other politically salient features of the identities of political subjects that exceed the category of citizen, such as race, religion, class, and sex. Although claiming the formal equality of citizens, the liberal democratic view tends to underemphasize ways in which citizens are not in fact equal in society. Rather than embracing the traditional liberal image of the melting pot into which people of different cultures are assimilated into a unified national culture, multiculturalism generally holds the image of a tossed salad to be more appropriate. Although being an integral and recognizable part of the whole, diverse members of society can maintain their particular identities while residing in the collective.
Some more radical multicultural theorists have claimed that some cultural groups need more than recognition to ensure the integrity and maintenance of their distinct identities and contributions. In addition to individual equal rights, some have advocated for special group rights and autonomous governance for certain cultural groups. Because the continued existence of protected minority cultures ultimately contributes to the good of all and the enrichment of the dominant culture, those theorists have argued that the preserving of cultures that cannot withstand the pressures to assimilate into a dominant culture can be given preference over the usual norm of equal rights for all.
Some examples of how multiculturalism has affected the social and political spheres are found in revisions of curricula, particularly in Europe and North America, and the expansion of the Western literary and other canons that began during the last quarter of the 20th century. Curricula from the elementary to the university levels were revised and ...
Nov 30, 2017 · This volume explores the interactions between debates in policy, law and theory regarding multiculturalism in contemporary Britain. It investigates political and legal controversies through a theoretical lens, applying philosophical arguments to concrete problems.
- Richard T. Ashcroft, Mark Bevir
- 2018
Sep 11, 2019 · While interculturalism is not a radical break from multiculturalism, it emphasizes the ideological constellation of three interrelated components of dialogue, identity flexibility, and a sense of unity across cultural differences (Meer & Modood, 2012).
- Maykel Verkuyten, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Kieran Mepham, Stefanie Sprong
- 2020
Mar 4, 2022 · Today there is an increasing gap between the dominant ideological and policy frameworks and everyday multiculturalism. Looking closer at the everyday multiculturalism, the daily routines and the un-reflective inter-ethnic encounters, we can find an emergent and positive shared intersubjectivity.
May 17, 2018 · On a macro and/or micro level, both, multiculturalism and interculturalism are developed as a theory, a narrative and political paradigm in response to the management of cultural diversity within the nation-state in order to redefine citizenship, nationhood, as well as local and national solidarity.
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Mar 19, 2024 · Multiculturalism (MC) and interculturalism (IC) as approaches to governing ethnic diversity have developed an often antagonistic relationship, borne out through scholarly as well as political debates.
