AMERICAN

LITERATURE
MULTICULTURALISM

BY,
R. HEPZIBAH
KANIMOZHI
C. IDA RAJAKUMARI
WHAT DOES MULTICULTURALISM MEAN?

The term 'multiculturalism' is sometimes used to

describe a condition of society; more precisely, it
is used to describe a society where a variety of
different cultures coexist. Many countries in the
world are culturally diverse. The term
“multicultural” is often used as a descriptive term
to characterize the fact of diversity in a society,
but in what follows, the focus is on
multiculturalism as a normative ideal in the
context of Western liberal democratic societies.
 What does multiculturalism mean in
simple words?

"Multiculturalism" is the co-existence of diverse

cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or
cultural groups and is manifested in customary
behaviours, cultural assumptions and values, patterns
of thinking, and communicative styles.
What is the main point/idea of
multiculturalism?

Multiculturalism is the key to

achieving a high degree of
cultural diversity. Diversity
occurs when people of different
races, nationalities, religions,
ethnicities, and philosophies
come together to form a
community. A truly diverse
society is one that recognizes
and values the cultural
differences in its people.
What are the types of
Ethnic
multiculturalism?

Three kinds of
multiculturalism can be
Linguistic
identified as coexisting in
the same society.
National
• Ethnic multiculturalism:
In sociology and in everyday usage, it is a synonym for "ethnic
pluralism", with the two terms often used interchangeably, for example, a
cultural pluralism in which various ethnic groups collaborate and enter
into a dialogue with one another without having to sacrifice their
particular identities.
• Linguistic multiculturalism:
In sociology and in everyday usage, people who speaks different
languages and have different cultures, living together as a group. A
marker of an individual’s cultural identity can often be expressed through
language. Multiculturalism is relevant to various dimensions of applied
linguistics.
• National multiculturalism:
This paper looks at the tension between official multiculturalism,
understood as a nation-building project that seeks to incorporate
migrants into a unified national community even while recognising and
fostering their difference, and the extra-national identifications.
EXAMPLE OF MULTICULTURALISM:

A historical example of multiculturalism was the

Habsburg monarchy, which had broken up in 1918
and under whose roof many different ethnic,
linguistic and religious groups lived together.
One of the foundations of this centuries-old
state structure was the Habsburg principle of
"live and let live".
WE HAD SOME GOOD
TIMES, DIDN’T WE?

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