MULTICULTURALISM Origins and development of multiculturalism Multiculturalism emerged

MULTICULTURALISM

Origins and development of multiculturalism Multiculturalism: • emerged as a result of black consciousness movements in the 1960 s. • has been helped by trends in international migration since 1945. • and Ethnocultural nationalism have inspired many minority communities to assert themselves.

Principles of multiculturalism Multiculturalism as an ideology principally values: • • politics of recognition culture and identity minority rights diversity

Multiculturalism and politics • Multiculturalism advances a political vision that claims to reconcile cultural diversity with civic cohesion, but there is no single doctrine in how this should be advanced. • Multiculturalism, like feminism, is a cross-cutting of ideologies. • There are competing models of multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism and politics There are several different branches of multicultural ideologies, including: • Liberal multiculturalism • Pluralistic multiculturalism • Cosmopolitan multiculturalism

Multiculturalism in the global age • Multiculturalism may well be the successor to the nationalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. • Multiculturalism could prove to be an unstoppable force in the twenty-first century and beyond. • Multiculturalism might prove however to have its limitations, and become unfashionable.