multiculturalism
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Multiculturalism
Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas de Castelo de Paiva
2010/2011
Multiculturalism It is the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures
in a specific place.
Liberal multiculturalism assumes the existence of pre-existing
cultures, which relate to, and interact with, each other, but
doesn’t examine the hierarchies of power based in these
interactions.
Critical multiculturalism is concerned with the institutions and
practices forming the whole society. It sees inequalities of
power and racism, recognizing the rights.
Around the World• It is a more and more common phenomenon and it exists in all
the countries.
• The most multicultural countries are:
the USA
Canada
the UK
Australia
• Theoretically, it is accepted in most of the countries; however, this
doesn’t happen in practice.
In Europe
Multiculturalism also exists in the European countries; however, in
some of them this is not well accepted, such as:
in France
in Germany
The European Union is concerned with this subject and is trying
to solve this problem, by making laws and promoting the tolerance;
This project, for example, aims at the communication among
different cultures which is a way to fight against the ethnic
discrimination.
In Portugalo There is a huge contrast between the old generation and the
youngest one.
Old people don’t accept this phenomenon very well;
Young people easily join to this kind of interaction.
o There is a great number of different ethnicities in Portugal,
among them Chinese, gipsies, Ukrainians and people from the
former Portuguese colonies, like Angola, Cape Verde, among
others.
In Portugalo Unfortunately, these immigrants aren't well integrated in our
society, because most of them still live in slums or in not so
pleasant neighbourhoods in the suburbs of the cities.
o ACIME is a non-governmental organization that helps in the
integration of these immigrants and protects their rights.
In Castelo de Paiva Here there is a great acceptance of multiculturalism;
The main ethnicities are Chinese, gipsies and Moroccans.
A fact that proves our acceptance and respect towards other
ethnicities and cultures is this project meeting and the
spontaneous acceptance of our families of this project.