A multiethnic societies is one with members belonging to more than one ethnic group An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or assumed- sharing cultural characteristics This shared heritage may be based upon putative common ancestry, history, kinship, religion, language, shared territory, nationality or physical appearance. Members of an ethnic group are, in contrast to societies which are ethnically homogenous Multiculturalism is the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures, for practical reasons and/or for the sake of diversity and applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities or nations. In this context, multiculturalists advocate extending. In practice, virtually all contemporary national societies are multiethnic. One scholar argued in 1993 that fewer than 20 of the then 180 sovereign states could be said to be ethnically and nationally homogenous, where a homogenous state was defined as one in which minorities made up less than five per cent of the population.[1] Sujit Choudhry therefore argues that, "[t]he age of the ethnoculturally homogeneous state, if ever there was one, is over".[2]
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- Multiculturalism Multiculturalism is the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities or nations. In this context, multiculturalists advocate extending equitable status to distinct ethnic and religious groups without
- Multiracial The terms multiracial and mixed-race describe people whose ancestries come from multiple races. Unlike the term biracial which often is only used to refer to having parents or grandparents of two different races, the term 'multiracial' may encompass biracial people but can also include people with more than two races in their heritage, or also may
- Polyethnicity Polyethnicity refers to the close proximity of people from different ethnic backgrounds within a country or other specific geographic region. It also relates to the ability and willingness of individuals to identify themselves with multiple ethnicities. It occurs when multiple ethnicities inhabit a given area, specifically through means of
References
- ^ Welsh, David (1993). "Domestic politics and ethnic conflict". in Brown, Michael E.. Ethnic Conflict and International Security. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 43–60. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 0691000689. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cstjhpRd-F4C&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=domestic+politics+and+ethnic+conflict&source=bl&ots=AtT0TULmh8&sig=m9Xo_rrOsaBV8wBU1AnMfufV3pI&hl=en&ei=n9NiSr-3NKWUjAfV4q37Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1.
- ^ Choudhry, Sujit (2008). "Bridging comparative politics and comparative constitutional law: Constitutional design in divided societies". in Choudhry, Sujit. Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation?. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 3–40. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 0199535418.
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