Cultural diversity must be publicly manifested and integrated despite cynicism.
Evidence
Everybody knows … that multiculturalism is not the promised land… [However,] even at its most cynical and pragmatic, there is something about multiculturalism which continues to be worth pursuing… We do need to find ways of publicly manifesting the significance of cultural diversity, [and] of integrating the contributions of people of colour into the fabric of society. (Wallace 1994) Multicultural societies are not new. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 311
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Wallace’s insistence that difference be publicly manifested despite its co-optation parallels the ‘Grafting & Growth’ framing of underused resources — here cultural, not botanical.
- XREF: connects to: Multicultural coexistence requires simultaneously pursuing equality and the recognition of difference. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 155; Multicultural politics must build plural public spheres resisting liberal formal equivalence. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 375; Liberal inclusion requires minority groups to approximate dominant cultural sameness — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1244 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Multicultural coexistence requires simultaneously pursuing equality and the recognition of difference. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 155; Multicultural politics must build plural public spheres resisting liberal formal equivalence. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 375; Liberal inclusion requires minority groups to approximate dominant cultural sameness — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1244 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Multicultural tolerance can mask racism as respect for culture
#complicates(0.79) - Multicultural policy regimes pressure minorities into presenting themselves as bounded distinct cultures.
#complicates(0.76) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 22 - Multiculturalism and racism can coexist within the same national moment.
#complicates(0.74) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 157