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multiculturalism
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multiculturalism,
n a philosophy that recognizes ethnic diversity within a society and that encourages others to be enlightened by worthwhile contributions to society by those of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
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Plural monoculturalism occurs where a policy of multiculturalism promotes culture as the dominant singular affiliation and ends up in a situation where there is a plurality of monocultures.
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France's unstated policy of monoculturalism has shackled its progress, despite having the greatest Muslim population in the EU.
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That emphasis on the culturally and temporally disruptive arrivante has force, not just in relation to the outright monoculturalism of traditional Shakespeare criticism, but also in relation to New Historicism's tendency to discover in the works "power's ode to itself," as well as to the strain of Anglo-American critique that amounts, in Wilson's words, to "one long campaign to arraign the plays as guilty by association with the European colonialism, slavery, and pogroms they foretold" (244).
Shakespeare in French Theory: King of Shadows by Pye, Christopher / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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