SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cultural Relativism, Minority Rights, Angela Merkel
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Ethnic minorities - recognition and accommodation of cultural difference. 23-02-2017: ethnic separatism not possible b/c very dif cult for minorities to institute separate societal cultures: Sustaining a societal culture in the modern world is not a matter of holding ethnic festivals, or having a few classes taught in one"s mother tongue as a child. Common language and institutions: institutions needed to create / sustain separate societal culture: economic, political. A retreat from mc: mc rejected as model of diversity management in europe, blamed for failure of integration of immigrants and ethnic minorities, terrorist attacks + political / social fragmentation. Nicolas sarkozy, fra (2011: we have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him. [ms policy of encouraging religious and cultural differences of immigrants] is a failure .
