By Christian Joppke, Steven Lukes
This quantity assembles top students to discuss multiculturalism in conception and perform. It discusses the next questions: Is universalism ethnocentric?; Does multiculturalism threaten citizenship?; Do minorities require team rights?; and What can Europe examine from North the USA? The publication goals to reply to those questions through relocating the talk approximately multicultural questions right into a extra consensual mode.
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No doubt belief in the white man's burden strengthens the white man's sense of identity and hence his power, but more is needed. The prosecution must show that the claim to universality is unwarranted and that failure to recognize this is due to cultural myopia. These Olympian conditions seem unreasonable and question-begging. It sounds unreasonable to call for a balance of warranted belief in matters of, for instance, religion, ethics, or metaphysics. Indeed, even to moot it suggests an ethnocentric belief in the universality of Western scientific reasoning covertly at work.
Thernstrom, Abigail (1987), Whose Votes Count? : Harvard University Press). : Harvard University Press). ), Mam in Europe (London: Macmillan). Waldron, Jeremy (1992), 'Minority Cultures and the Cosmopolitan Alternative', University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 25/3-4: 751-92. Witte, Bruno de (1998), Ethnic Minorities, The European Union and its Enlargement. Paper presented to the Reflection Group on 'Long-term Implications of EU Enlargement: The Nature of the New Border', European University Institute, Florence, 19 June 1998.
At best, immigrants are entitled to 'polyethnic rights', such as bilingual education, to smoothen their adaptation to the receiving society. 9. As Kymlicka himself concedes, there is no place for the descendants of black American slaves in this scheme, who are neither an immigrant group nor a national minority. 10. ) has made this observation. 11. Consider, for example, the strange story of black African world music hero Fela Kutti, who said of himself to have been 'Africanized' by his black American girlfriend in California (see Hannerz, 1987).