Multiculturalism- Thinkers

Question 1

Charles Taylor Quote’s and ideas

Answer 1

• Not recognising culture causes ‘crippling self-hatred’
• Celebrate ‘unique’ charter of individuals warning about expecting “external conformity”
• “our aquision of rich human languages of expression” allows understanding of yourself and your idenity.
• universalism can cause dominant groups ot create “an image of inferiority in the subjugated”
  -To achieve “due recognition equalisation of all rights under a framework that recognises the unique situation
  of every individual and group called “politics of difference’
  -Maintaining the dignity of human life through “benevolent formula for mutual existence”. Not merelyacknowledge each other’s existence and rights, but treat each other with kindness and respect.
• Immigrants feel intergation says we really don’t want to have you guys here at all
• **“recognition is a vital human need” **
• “The right to culture is not a right to restrict others, but
  a right to sustain one’s own way of life.”
• “Recognition is a vital human need”
• Majorities should show “openness and generosity of
  spirit” to minorities- Taylor

Question 2

Isiah Berlin quotes and ideas

Answer 2

• Decitions about a person’s life should depend only on themselves not on “external forces of whatever kind”
• “Freedom for the wolves has often meant death for the sheep”
• “only barbarians are not curious” (about other cultures)

Question 3

Kymlicka key quotes and ideas

Answer 3

-Culture= “anchor for their self-identification and the safetyof effortless secure belonging”
- Groups rights create “Multi-ethnic, multi-religous, multi-faith and multi-national”
- “benign neglect”
- Advocated for formal recognition and self-government for three minorit, groups in Canada- the French-speaking
Quebecois, and the indigenousFirst Nations and Inuit peoples
- “context of choice”
- “The right to culture is not a right to restrict others, but
a right to sustain one’s own way of life.”
- “Minority rights are justified within a liberal egalitarian
theory”
- “A multicultural society must provide minority groups with the resources they need to sustain their culture.”

Question 4

Parekh key quote and ideas

Answer 4

• Multiculturalism thrives in “civilized dialogue”
• All cultures “have their share of unacceptable practices” needing to be “exposed and fought”.
• “Since each culture is inherently limited, a dialogue between them is mutually beneficial.”
• “Human beings are culturally embedded in the sense
  that they grow up and live within a culturally structured
  world”
• “No culture is perfect and has the right to impose itself on others”
  -“Culture is part of an immigrant’s identity, it has profoundly shaped them and means much to them, and their self-respect is tied up with respect not only for them as individuals but also for their culture.”

Question 5

Moodod kye quotes and ideas

Answer 5

• Multiculturalism is creating “a new, ongoing we”
• intergation should welcome individuals “into relations of equal respect”
• “A multicultural approach, recognising the plurality of racism and the distinctive needs and vulnerabilities of different groups”
• “We have to rethink what it meant to be British, to remake our sense of country so it was inclusive of all fellow citizens”
• “Steel bands, saris and samosas”

Question 6

Waldron quotes

Answer 6

• We shouldn’t define ourselves: “by his location or his ancestry or his citizenship or hislanguage”,
• “The Satanic Verses rejoices in “mongrelisation”.
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Question 7

Appiah quote

Answer 7

“Culture matters because people matter and culture matters to people.”

Question 8

Particularist quotes.

Answer 8

“cultural purity”
“plural monoculturalism”- Amartya Sen

Question 9

Hitchens quotes (conservative)

Answer 9

“Immigrants arriving here surely have a duty to become part of the culture that they have chosen to enter.”