How does Interculturalism Contrast with Multiculturalism?

Meer, Nasar; Modood, Tariq

doi:10.1080/07256868.2011.618266

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“…Multiculturalism is used as an ideology intended for coming to grips with cultural diversity encompassing the quality and positive evaluation of heterogeneous groups within a society (Jackson et al, 2012: 2). Meer and Modood (2011: 3) contrast interculturality and multiculturalism, stating that the former centres around interaction, is less group membership orientated and more yielding of synthesis while encompassing a better sense of cohesion. While multiculturalism focuses on diversity, interculturality focuses on cohesion.…”

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Exploring the theoretical link between cultural and emotional intelligence: A system analysis for human resource management

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Swanepoel

2015

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In light of increasing globalisation and a changing workforce, the ability to bridge cultural fissures separating diverse groups will be increasingly critical to sustained work place well-being, especially with relation to global competitiveness and economic growth. This article explores the link between cultural and emotional intelligence in an effort to investigate the possibility of measuring, developing, and effectively managing individual responses to cultural influences that give rise to significant tension within the organisational context. Since South Africa’s heterogeneous workforce is characterised by culturally diverse group interaction, the conceptualisation of a cross-cultural facet of intelligence with emotional-management as reciprocal component has practical implications towards optimal intercultural organisational harmony, effective globalised interaction and overall group-dynamics.

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Exploring the theoretical link between cultural and emotional intelligence: A system analysis for human resource management

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“…In Western Europe, by contrast, multiculturalism is considered to have a more limited meaning, usually encouraging hospitable attitudes towards new generations of immigrants (Meer & Modood 2011). Different in meaning, united in consequences: part of the critique that the concept generates is that each of these variations fosters its own simplifications, generalizations or collective amnesias (McDonald 2011).…”

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“…And in the field of education, nowhere is the question of the understanding of and identification with the traditions of the 'Other' more apparent than in writings on interculturality. Having become a commonplace in educational rhetoric over the last decade, interculturality is seen as a tool for bridging cultural differences and breaking out of the nihilistic tendencies of multiculturalism's enclosure of subjects within partitioned cultures (Meer & Modood 2011). 'Intercultural Education provides all learners with cultural knowledge, attitudes and skills', proclaims UNESCO (2006: 37), 'to contribute to respect, understanding and solidarity among individuals, ethnic, social, cultural and religious groups and nations.'…”

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“…Given that interculturality -in stark contrast to multiculturalism -possesses a compellingly positive meaning in liberal democracies based on the possibility of, and desire for, mutual empathy in interacting across differences (cf. Meer & Modood 2011), my approach is informed not only by the lack of critical interventions on the subject (cf. Lentin 2005) but also by the fact that Europe's relation to its Others is still burdened by colonialism (Spivak 1985).…”

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The Double Bind of Interculturality and the Implications for Education

Aman¹

2015

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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This paper explores the ways in which boundaries of estrangement are produced in the academic literature assigned for courses on interculturality. As the existence of interculturality is dependent on the ascription of content to culture – since the notion, by definition, always involves more than one singular culture – this essay seeks to provide an answer to the question of what this literature, implicitly or otherwise, defines in terms of sameness vis-à-vis otherness, and thereby to chart the conditions for becoming intercultural. This question is especially important because the self in interculturality has to be, in principle, generalizable: it should signify a position available for occupation by anybody with proper training in this approach. Starting from the assumption that different experiences, languages and identities, already intersect and are indeed already intercultural before being subjected to study under the auspices of ‘interculturality’ as an educational topic, the essay goes on to problematize the way in which interculturality tends to construe sameness and difference along national lines and does little to cater for multiple, as opposed to national, or other unified, identities

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“…Interculturalidad y multiculturalidad en la modernidad central Los conceptos de interculturalidad y multiculturalidad -o interculturalismo y multiculturalismo en la traducción literal del inglés -, y, en general, la preocupación por la diversidad cultural dentro de la sociedad surgen en Europa, en la Norteamérica franco-sajona y en Australia hacia la década de 1970 (Kymlicka, 1996), aunque algunos autores sitúan su emergencia en el decenio anterior (Meer;Modood, 2012). Es decir, su aparición en estos países y en latinoamérica es prácticamente simultá-nea.…”

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Divergencias en la conceptualización de la relación entre culturas

Irarrázabal

2017

Sociologias

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ARTIGO Divergencias en la conceptualización de la relación entre culturas CÉSAR CISTERNAS IRARRÁZABAL * ResumenLa conceptualización de la relación entre culturas es un tópico que está lejos de un acuerdo sobre cuál es el mejor término para analizar aquella realidad. Desde diferentes corrientes filosóficas, tales como el liberalismo, republicanismo, comunitarismo o postcolonialismo, se han dado miríadas de visiones sobre la materia, en las cuales también ha jugado un papel el uso pragmático que se le da a los conceptos. El presente artículo pretende mapear la discusión en este campo. Para esto, se dividió el debate geopolíticamente; de este modo, se presenta, por una parte, la realidad en la modernidad central, y por la otra, el estado del arte en Latinoamérica. Se llega a la conclusión que, en muchos casos, las diferencias entre los enfoques no son tan radicales como pareciera a primera vista en la discusión. Asimismo, se observa que existen ciertos puntos sobre los cuales cualquier sugerencia en materia de interculturalidad debe pronunciarse, a saber, la naturaleza de las identidades, las características deseadas del Estado-nación, la postura frente a la modernidad occidental, la aceptabilidad de la democracia y los derechos humanos como valores universales, quiénes son los sujetos interculturales y si las relaciones se deben basar en la igualdad o el reconocimiento. Divergences in conceptualizing the relation between cultures AbstractThe conceptualisation of the relationship between cultures is a topic that is far from an agreement on what is the best term to analyse that reality. From different philosophical positions such as liberalism, republicanism, comunitarism or postcolonialism are given myriads of views on the matter, in which the pragmatic use of concepts also has played a role. In this paper, we aim to map the discussion in this field. For this task the debate has been divided geopolitically, thus it is presented, on one hand, the reality in the central modernity, and on the other, the state of the art in Latin America. We find out that, in many cases, the differences between the approaches are not as radical as they seem at a first glance in the discussion. Besides that, it is observed that there are certain points on which any suggestion regarding interculturalism should be pronounced, namely, the nature of identities, the characteristics of the Nation-State, the attitude towards western modernity, the acceptability of democracy and human rights as universal values, who are the intercultural subjects and if the relationships must be based on equality or on recognition.

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How does Interculturalism Contrast with Multiculturalism?

Cited by 290 publications

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Exploring the theoretical link between cultural and emotional intelligence: A system analysis for human resource management

Exploring the theoretical link between cultural and emotional intelligence: A system analysis for human resource management

The Double Bind of Interculturality and the Implications for Education

Divergencias en la conceptualización de la relación entre culturas

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