multiculturalism
English
WOTD – 24 April 2011
Etymology
Etymology tree
From multicultural + -ism.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌmʌltɪˈkʌltʃəɹəˌlɪz(ə)m/
Audio (Australia): (file) Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file)
Noun
multiculturalism (countable and uncountable, plural multiculturalisms)
- The characteristics of an organization, society, city etc. which has many different ethnic or national cultures mingling freely; political or social policies which support or encourage such coexistence. [from 20th c.]
- Coordinate terms: monoculturalism (1), biculturalism (2), triculturalism (3)
- Near-synonym: polyculturalism (several or many)
- 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 18:
- The truth is that diversity, a kind of multiculturalism if we want to call it that, is the norm in any society.
- 1991 April 8, Barbara Ehrenreich, “Essay: Teach Diversity – with a Smile”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:
- Something had to replace the threat of communism, and at last a workable substitute is at hand. "Multiculturalism," as the new menace is known, has been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism – take your choice.
- 2005 August 3, David Davis MP, Daily Telegraph:
- Britain has pursued a policy of multiculturalism - allowing people of different cultures to settle without expecting them to integrate into society.
- 2011 April 7, “On a mat and a prayer”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- Earlier this year he said multiculturalism had “failed”, that immigrants needed to “melt” into French society, and that “we do not want ostentatious prayers in the street in France.”
- 2021 January 19, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, “Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is ‘not who America is’”, in CNN[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 18 June 2021:
- Career diplomat Conrad Tribble said on Twitter that multiculturalism “is one of our greatest strengths as a country, and I go to that well often as an American diplomat. It’s hard to overstate the global soft power impact of America’s cultural diversity.”
- (derogatory, right-wing, colloquial) The cultural Marxism conspiracy theory.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
societal idea
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See also
- cosmopolitan
- culturism
- ethnostate, homogenous (used by some opponents of multiculturalism as their ideal society)
Romanian
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from English multiculturalism. By surface analysis, multicultural + -ism.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mul.ti.cul.tu.raˈlism/
- Rhymes: -ism
- Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧cul‧tu‧ra‧lism
Noun
multiculturalism n (uncountable)
- multiculturalism (coexistence of several different cultures in one society)
Declension
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | multiculturalism | multiculturalismul |
| genitive-dative | multiculturalism | multiculturalismului |
| vocative | multiculturalismule | |
References
- “multiculturalism”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
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