Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is a political and social movement that acknowledges and supports cultural diversity within a society. The discourse of multiculturalism has become central to public debates around education, immigration, national identity, and democracy. Multiculturalism, as a social movement, has been promoted as a means for undoing social oppressions associated with race, gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Proponents of multiculturalism hail it as the respect and celebration of the cultural diversity, and opponents often malign it as an ideology that is relativist and thus damaging to morals, truth, and national identity. Empirically, it is a virtual social fact that in once predominantly white nations, daily life had become actually, if not always agreeably, multicultural by the 1990s in the sense that peoples once marginalized have risen ...