Critical multiculturalism requires self-critique of one’s own culture first

Evidence

In the end then, this kind of critical, reflexive multiculturalism must foster, above all, people who can engage critically with all ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including (and especially) their own. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 952

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enlightenment must critique itself rather than merely defend cultural values — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 24; The critic’s critique of commodified art must begin as self-critique. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 788; Restoring a cultural element without adopting its fundamentalist politics requires fully self-conscious intervention — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 188 (+1 more)