LEVELS OF MEANING OF MULTICULTURALISM

LEVELS OF MEANING OF MULTICULTURALISM

As Fact	As Ideology	As Policy	As Practice	As Critical Discourse
Descriptive and empirical statement of what is [descriptive reality]	Prescriptive and projective statement of what ought to be in terms of ideas and ideals	Explicit government initiatives to foster social equality, cultural diversity, and national interests	Putting multicultural-ism into practice at two levels: 1) political 2) minority women and men	Challenge, resist, and transform the distribution of cultural power in society [institutional power-sharing between ethnoracial groups]

As Fact

As Ideology

As Policy

As Practice

As Critical Discourse

Descriptive and empirical statement of what is [descriptive reality]

Prescriptive and projective statement of what ought to be in terms of ideas and ideals

Explicit government initiatives to foster social equality, cultural diversity, and national interests

Putting multicultural-ism into practice at two levels:

1) political

2) minority women and men

Challenge, resist, and transform the distribution of cultural power in society [institutional power-sharing between ethnoracial groups]

CRITICAL MULTICULTURALISM

CRITICAL MULTICULTUALISM EMPHASIZES THE PRINCIPLE THAT PEOPLE ARE FUNDAMENTALLY EQUAL, AND MAKES THIS THE BASIS FOR CHALLENGING HOW POWER AND PRIVILEGE ARE DISTRIBUTED AND HOW HISTORY AND LITERATURE ARE TAUGHT.

IS A COUNTER-HEGEMONIC PROJECT THAT SEEKS TO CHALLENGE SOCIAL AUTHORITY, RESIST WHITE HEGEMONY, AND TRANSFORM SOCIETY BY CREATING SPACE FOR OTHER CULTURES.

[LIFE COMPLEX == FINDING UNITY IN OUR DIFFERENCE]

[*IN ORDER TO DO THE ABOVE, “THE MULTICULTURALIST” HAS TO “INTERVENE IN THE STATUS QUO”]