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is, along with diversity, responsible for having produced separatism and the myth of victimization on campuses, which has led to greater hostility.

Campuses that glorify affirmative action, multiculturalism, and diversity have produced separatism and the myth of victimization, which has led to more hostility.

is an alternative political philosophy used to address the weakness of liberalism and to deal with an increasingly diverse population in contemporary western industrial society.

For many political political philosophers, such as Charles Taylor. multiculturalism is analternative political philosophy used to address the weakness of liberalism and todeal with an increasingly diverse population in contemporary Westen1 industrialsociety (Abu-Laban. 2002).

is bad for women and at odds with feminism because minority cultures do not lay emphasis on ensuring the individual rights of their members.

CLAIMS THAT MULTICULTURALISM IS AT ODDS WITH FEMINISMthe claim 'that minority cultures or ways of life are not sufficiently protected by the practice of ensuring the individual rights of their members, and as a consequence these should also be protected through special group rights or privileges' (is multiculturalism bad for women (10-11)

is fundamental or ridiculous depending on the approach: ridiculous as an expression of the variety of culture that a healthy society ought to have, it's fundamental.

ridiculous: as an expression of the variety of culture that a healthy society ought to have, it's fundamental.

is, in colleges, responsible not for better relations among groups but rather it has produced hostility and a sense of ethnic nationalism among minority groups.

Multiculturalism in colleges has not led to better relations among groups... rather it has produced hostility and a sense of ethnic nationalism among minority groups. Campuses that glorify affirmative action, multiculturalism, and diversity have produced separatism and the myth of victimization, which has led to more hostility.

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.

is necessarily dialogical.: That is, it concerns esteeming other cultures, and doing so requires that we must in a sense fuse horizons with them.

For Taylor multiculturalism is necessarily the dialogical. The pole of authenticity and identity is about esteem: about our esteeming other cultures. And we can only judge other cultures if we fuse horizons with them.

is not about rights... it is about the responsibility to respect the self-understanding of other individuals.

For Taylor, multiculturalism is not about rights... it isabout the responsibility to respect the self-understanding of other individuals, where, in the end,the individualist Canadian majority must respect that communitarian Quebecers understand themselves as a nation. And so Taylor can only go so far in recognizing Quebecers' selfunderstanding,given the limitations to the debate: the responsibility is that of individuals, not ofgroups.

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