Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v4i2.398
A Multicultural Approach - An Effort or Hypocrisy?
Marko Žarić
; Caritas, Bremen
Abstract
The multicultural approach, as a construct of modern times, has been used within almost all social strata. However, opinion about what the notion actually means differ significantly, depending on whether the word is used in an honest effort to achieve multicultural society or if it is resorted to just to blur the existing social and political, as well as welfare, issues, or to openly discriminate the lower, immigrant social strata and foreign ethnic groups. The author analyses the multicultural approach with the example of German society, from which the waves of “progress” and “the surpassed narrow national framework” are pounding us. The results of the analysis are largely applicable to other highly-developed European societies. They have shown that it is more a question of hypocritical readiness to open up one's cultural and national space to other cultures. Such readiness ends at the boundaries of a well organised and functioning economy, without any contribution of other ethnic groups in the decision-making process or spiritual evaluation. Moreover, a multicultural approach thus understood and applied is analysed in a very controversial way and is endangered. Having outlined the fairly discouraging reality, the author offers an overview of the necessary contents to enrich the idea of a multicultural approach, in order for it not to remain mere verbosity.
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29870
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Publication date:
1.2.1997.
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