Hence Britain's identity today differs from what it was a century ago, as do people's British identities, and the measures within a policy of
multiculturalism that are described above help over time to make such changes.
"This was extremism, not
multiculturalism," he added.
Multiculturalism was adopted as official policy in 1971.
Such issues invite us to reflect on these kinds of questions: Are the logics of
multiculturalism that we resort to in nations such as the United States (or the UK or Canada) able to sufficiently articulate transnational frames needed to comprehend cultural exclusions that exist in other modernities, or that result from collisions of multiple (but unequal) modernities?
Rita Chin argues that there were few efforts to institute state-sponsored policies of
multiculturalism, and those that emerged were pronounced failures virtually from their inception.
Multiculturalism in Montenegro - The phases of development
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Multiculturalism is the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles".2
Rita Chin points out in The Crisis of
Multiculturalism in Europe that another, older issue was about to return instead.
As we consider the issues of
multiculturalism today, "Understanding
Multiculturalism" offers new approaches to understanding
multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of politically exploited concepts of social spaces.
Development of
multiculturalism and tolerance at the level of State policy in Azerbaijan is based on ancient history of statehood of the country and on development of these traditions.
Yet, despite this silence, '
multiculturalism' casts a long shadow, and is highly relevant for the many issues the country is currently facing.
Although Jansen ends by articulating a defense of what she calls "critical
multiculturalism," the great strength of her densely argued book is the critical lens she focuses on the theories of others.