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is often not result from ethnic groups' own choices and preference, but rather as a response to their subordinated position in relation to the dominant.

group.Li argues that the maintenance of ethnic distinctiveness may not result from ethnic groups' own choices and preference, butrather as a response to their subordinated position in relation to the dominantgroup. Bannerji (2000) also questions 'Taylor's politics of recognition by pointingout that it treats difference among people simply as an issue of cultural diversity,and the multicultural state as a povcr-neutral entity and thus is devoid of socialrelations based on 'race... gender, class and other social indicators. As she argues:''Speaking here of culture Vithout addressing povcr relations displaces andtrivia lizes deep contradictions. It is a reduclionisn1 that hides the social relations of

is mistakenly used by academics as a synonym of cultural pluralism. In so doing, ethnic groups are defined as members of a group who share a homogenous and primordial ethnic culture rather than one constructed from and through unequal power relations.

As well, Li ( 1999) points out that multiculturalism is mistakenlyused by academics as a synonym of cultural pluralism to analyze racial and ethnicrelations. In so doing, ethnic groups are defined as members of a group who sharea homogenous and primordial ethnic culture rather than one constructed from andthrough unequal power relations.

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