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multiculturalism or cultural pluralism, a term describing the coexistence of many cultures in a locality, without any one culture dominating the region. By making the broadest range of human differences acceptable to the largest number of people, multiculturalism seeks to overcome racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Sen coins the term "plural monoculturalism" for what I have called "hard" multiculturalism and criticizes developments in British education that are promoting such plural monoculturalism. This is "postcoloniality in reverse," whose protocols "reductively define people exclusively by their assumed identification with their 'own' nation-state and their assigned obedience to dehybridized monoculturalism in all its forms. The goal of the document, as it appears, is to integrate language learners to the American mainstream language and culture, or what Wiley and Lukes (1996) and Banks (2004) call the ideology of English monolingualism and monoculturalism. |
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