Multicultural policy regimes pressure minorities into presenting themselves as bounded distinct cultures.

Evidence

Baumann stresses that he does not ‘call one discourse true and the other false’ (11), instead of exploring how different discourses emerge and circulate within different structural and interactional contexts. He attributes the continuing dominance of bounded ideas of culture to the incentives and pressures of a multicultural policy regime, which requires minorities to present themselves as members of authentic and distinct cultures, while he associates the latter discourse with everyday interactions and mixing. He thus argues that absent state-driven ‘competition predicated on ethnic or religious … criteria … Southallians’ definition of culture might well come to parallel anthropologists’ definitions of culture’, as something fluid, contingent, and performative (197; for Baumann’s elaboration of this anthropological definition, 11–13). — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 22

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 22
• XREF: connects to: Multiculture can operate where ethnic difference escapes normative supervision. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 78; Minority cultural works are pressured to speak for their entire community; Emancipatory minorities face a double standard demanding both assimilation and authentic difference

Related

• Multiculture can operate where ethnic difference escapes normative supervision. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Minority cultural works are pressured to speak for their entire community #expands (0.85)
• Emancipatory minorities face a double standard demanding both assimilation and authentic difference #expands (0.78)