Defensible multiculturalism requires ongoing internal and external critique of group practices.

Evidence

Thus, the final, and perhaps key, tenet of a credible multicultural paradigm is the need to maintain at all times a reflexive critique of specific ethnic and cultural practices - one that avoids the vacuity of cultural relativism, and allows for criticism (both internal and external to the group), transformation, and change (see Phillips, 1997). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 950

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the reflexive-critique tenet that separates ‘credible’ multiculturalism from cultural relativism.