Pluralism should shift to a state of multiple contending minorities

Evidence

For the moment, we can note that both individual mobility and some forms of social creativity can work to reduce intergroup conflict over scarce resources—though with different implications. The former is destructive of subordinate-group solidarity and provides no antidote to negative social identity at a group level. The latter may restore or create a positive self-image but, it can be surmised, at the price either of a collective repression of objective deprivation or, perhaps, of spurious rivalry with some other deprived group. It is interesting in this context that the French Canadians, having recently gained a more assertive identity, are now apparently more disparaging of other minority groups than are the English Canadians (Berry et al., 1977). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2751 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern reason must embrace value pluralism to shed its absolutist medieval heritage — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 579; Multicultural politics must build plural public spheres resisting liberal formal equivalence. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 375; Multicultural politics must think beyond liberal-communitarian binaries to combine difference with equality — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 374 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Gaining assertive identity can make minority groups disparage other minorities #complicates (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2751