Multicultural Governance and Cultural Diversity Challenge

Abstract

“Pluralism” is not a new phenomenon, but the new issue about it is the growth and expansion of “diversity” in the world. “Pluralism” is a social fact representing different beliefs, attitudes and ways of life. The pluralist world, then, tries to encourage the presence of many diverse and incompatible theoretical and moral standards, belief systems and key values to manage conflict and bigotry that come out of differences. As a result, multiculturalism arose as a reference to a wide variety of theories, attitudes, beliefs, norms, practices and policies in search of public recognition and support for nondominant cultural groups. Nevertheless, a multicultural approach is different from social and cultural diversity as it goes beyond the elementary civil and political liberties related to conformist liberal citizenship