cultural fundamentalism

is a modern version of old-style racism, often explicitly opposed to agendas of multiculturalism.

according to which (1) human beings are by nature culture bearers... (2) cultures are distinct and incommensurable... (3) relations between bearers of different cultures are intrinsically conflictive... and (4) it is in human nature to be xenophobic. Cultural fundamentalism comes in many varieties and, in part, as Stolcke points out, it has come to replace an older-style racism that has become too historically and intellectually compromised to be effective in public debate. Cultural fundamenetalism is often explicitly opposed to agendas of multiculturalism' (A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics Nugent, David... joan vincent)

is the idea that human beings are by nature xenophobic grounded in the presumption that humans are bearers of distinct and incommensurable cultures which are intrinsically conflictive.

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