"Exploring the tensions between cultural pluralism and universalism in relation to developing public policy in multi ethnic societies": Post graduate Seminar Paper - Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University

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Author	Singh, Gurnam
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The idea that national and international policies are best built on cultural pluralism, or what is often termed multiculturalism, has almost achieved the status of common sense. Such a view is propagated on the recognition that societies around the world, due to complex social, political and ecological processes associated with old and new globalisation and the attendant mass and rapid migration of people, are much more mixed than the selective amnesia that historical nationalist narratives have hitherto acknowledged. Of course this does/has not resulted in the death of nationalisms; one only needs to switch on the TV across the globe, in each and every country we are seeing the reassertion of old as well as the birth of new nationalist movements, many of which have, such as the Golden Dawn party in Greece and the Tea Party movement in the US gained considerable ground following the 2008 Economic melt down. In India in recent years we have seen the rise of Hindutva, in the UK we have groups like the UK Independence party and the English Defence League, In France the French National front regularly commands 25% of the popular vote in local and national elections.
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