The growth of Multiculturalism as a state sponsored ideology has been one of the key changes over the last thirty years in world politics alongside the re-emergence of neo-liberalism, the fall of 'communism and the rise of political Islam. The word can of course mean different things; multiculturalism (with a small m) just describes how people of different cultures live together and get on with each other or not. Multiculturalism (with a capital M) describes how various states have adopted it as an ideology that separates groups of people on the basis of ethnicity.
The following four posts on the blog, from very different perspectives, analyse the effects of Multiculturalism in a variety of countries. The first, by Daniel Brandt from 1996, looks at the growth of the ideology in the USA in the1960s and 1970. The second, by Phil Duncan and Grant Cronin examines the rise of Maori nationalism in New Zealand in the years since 1984. Joe Reilly's article from 2001 focuses on Britain. The fourth, and final article by Kenan Malik traces the emergence of Multiculturalism to the 1960s but in a different way to Brandt. There's a couple of other pieces I want to post as well but can't find at the moment, including one by myself from the 1990s.
By the way, I don't necessarily agree with everything written in the four articles.
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