Multiculturalism

Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas de Castelo de Paiva

2010/2011

Multiculturalism It is the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures

in a specific place.

Liberal multiculturalism assumes the existence of pre-existing

cultures, which relate to, and interact with, each other, but

doesn’t examine the hierarchies of power based in these

interactions.

Critical multiculturalism is concerned with the institutions and

practices forming the whole society. It sees inequalities of

power and racism, recognizing the rights.

Around the World• It is a more and more common phenomenon and it exists in all

the countries.

• The most multicultural countries are:

the USA

Canada

the UK

Australia

• Theoretically, it is accepted in most of the countries; however, this

doesn’t happen in practice.

In Europe

Multiculturalism also exists in the European countries; however, in

some of them this is not well accepted, such as:

in France

in Germany

The European Union is concerned with this subject and is trying

to solve this problem, by making laws and promoting the tolerance;

This project, for example, aims at the communication among

different cultures which is a way to fight against the ethnic

discrimination.

In Portugalo There is a huge contrast between the old generation and the

youngest one.

Old people don’t accept this phenomenon very well;

Young people easily join to this kind of interaction.

o There is a great number of different ethnicities in Portugal,

among them Chinese, gipsies, Ukrainians and people from the

former Portuguese colonies, like Angola, Cape Verde, among

others.

In Portugalo Unfortunately, these immigrants aren't well integrated in our

society, because most of them still live in slums or in not so

pleasant neighbourhoods in the suburbs of the cities.

o ACIME is a non-governmental organization that helps in the

integration of these immigrants and protects their rights.

In Castelo de Paiva Here there is a great acceptance of multiculturalism;

The main ethnicities are Chinese, gipsies and Moroccans.

A fact that proves our acceptance and respect towards other

ethnicities and cultures is this project meeting and the

spontaneous acceptance of our families of this project.