MULTICULTURALISM: NEED OF THE HOUR

Multiculturalism emerge as a new ideology because of various issues, problems and challenges faced by our society. Almost all of the modern societies of the world are culturally diverse and pluralistic. As a political philosophy multiculturalism is a body of thought which respond in proper way to the all kinds of diversity be it cultural, religious, racial or linguistic. We all accept that cultural diversity exist in all societies. Multiculturalism implies a positive acceptance and endorsement of cultural diversity and maintains that such differences should be respected and publically affirms. It means to accept various beliefs and ways of life as values and we should respect all the diversity. Multiculturalism is different and better ideology than pluralism because multiculturalism not only recognize the cultural diversity but also affirms that cultural differences should be publically affirmed. Multiculturalism maintain that different cultures deserves to be strengthened. Multiculturalism also demands remedies to political and economic disadvantages that people suffer as a result of their minority status. All political ideologies, from multiculturalist point of view are narrow and partial because all of them is embedded in particular culture and represent a particular vision of good life