Multiculturalism Flashcards
David Cameron
2011 security conference in Munich- first speech as prime minister denounced multiculturalism
Fulled the success of far right parties and populism is on the rise
PIS
The party for freedom in the Netherlands won 24 seats in 2010
Trump
Germany
In 2013 more than ten million people in Germany were born abroad
In Sweden 15%
Ban of the burka
September 2010
Gary younge
Wrote ‘no place LIke home’ talking about lack of black history in the curriculum and the negative effect on black children
Charles Taylor
- Equal dignity and equal recognition is needed to make individuals feel a part of society
- liberalism emphasises individual which undermines society not promoting cohesion
Parekh
If the state doesn’t recognise the identity of people they will alienate people from society
Will kymlicka
Indigenous people should be given political autonomy or territorial control
Boris Johnson
“They look like letter boxes”
Naqab
Satanic verses 1988
Seen as blasphemous for its depiction of islam and prophet Muhammad
Liberal multiculturalist
- Try to support diversity with integration into the nation state
- neutrality of the state “difference blind”
- public private divide
- liberal tolerance- try to be tolerant but only to those who are tolerant cultures
Muslims in France
6 m
Pluralist multiculturalist
- diversity is a value in its own right
-Berlin talks about value pluralism - no one conception of the good life
Integration through group differentiated rights
Cosmopolitan multiculturalism
- Cultures are fluid
- Some people may have multiple they identify with
Conservative criticism
- multiculturalism has led to segregation
- rise in multiculturalism willl lead to a resentment from majority groups
- solution strict immigration policies
