multiculturalism
English
editEtymology
editFrom multicultural + -ism.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌmʌltɪˈkʌltʃəɹəˌlɪz(ə)m/
Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file)
Noun
editmulticulturalism (countable and uncountable, plural multiculturalisms)
- The characteristics of an organization, society, city etc. which has many different ethnic or national cultures mingling freely; political or social policies which support or encourage such coexistence. [from 20th c.]
- 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 18:
- The truth is that diversity, a kind of multiculturalism if we want to call it that, is the norm in any society.
- 1991 April 8, Barbara Ehrenreich, “Essay: Teach Diversity – with a Smile”, in Time:
- Something had to replace the threat of communism, and at last a workable substitute is at hand. "Multiculturalism," as the new menace is known, has been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism – take your choice.
- 2005 August 3, David Davis MP, Daily Telegraph:
- Britain has pursued a policy of multiculturalism - allowing people of different cultures to settle without expecting them to integrate into society.
- 2011 April 7, “On a mat and a prayer”, in The Economist:
- Earlier this year he said multiculturalism had “failed”, that immigrants needed to “melt” into French society, and that “we do not want ostentatious prayers in the street in France.”
- (derogatory) the cultural Marxism conspiracy theory.
Coordinate terms
edit- 1, monoculturalism; 2, biculturalism; 3, triculturalism; several or many, polyculturalism
Related terms
editTranslations
editsocietal idea
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See also
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English multiculturalism. By surface analysis, multicultural + -ism.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmulticulturalism n (uncountable)
- multiculturalism (coexistence of several different cultures in one society)
Declension
edit declension of multiculturalism (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) multiculturalism | multiculturalismul |
genitive/dative | (unui) multiculturalism | multiculturalismului |
vocative | multiculturalismule |
References
edit- multiculturalism in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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