Mul­ti­kul­tu­rel­le Ge­sell­schaf­ten

Mul­ti­cul­tu­ral so­cie­ties

What is a "mul­ti­cul­tu­ral so­cie­ty"?

⇒  so­cie­ty in which peop­le live to­ge­ther who have:

• dif­fe­rent eth­nic orig­ins
• dif­fe­rent re­li­gi­ons
• dif­fe­rent cul­tu­ral stan­dards
• dif­fe­rent lan­gua­ges             ⇒ most so­cie­ties are mul­ti­cul­tu­ral

im­portant po­li­ti­cal chal­len­ge no­wa­days:
es­ta­blis­hing and main­tai­ning mu­tu­al re­spect/ac­cep­tan­ce
bet­ween dif­fe­rent cul­tu­res

pre­con­di­ti­ons for suc­cess:

per­so­nal level

• to­leran­ce
• re­spect for others
• no fear of loss of iden­ti­ty

state level

• equal rights
• equal op­por­tu­nities

Pheno­me­non

De­scrip­ti­ons/ideas of the US mul­ti­cul­tu­ral so­cie­ty:

mel­ting-pot idea (Syn­the­se­mo­dell): im­portant ele­ments of se­veral cul­tu­res melt into one new cul­tu­re

salad bowl : : mul­ti­cul­tu­ral so­cie­ty in which the dif­fe­rent cul­tu­res re­main dis­tinct from each other

pizza so­cie­ty :com­po­n­ents (cul­tu­res) re­main dis­tinct but to­ge­ther give the whole pizza (so­cie­ty) a spe­cial fla­vour. All com­po­n­ents are based on one com­mon pizza dough (com­mon ground/sha­red va­lues).

In­te­gra­ti­on po­li­cies/stra­te­gies:

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