Multiculturalism

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This paper discusses multiculturalism, with a focus on its development, its use by society, and the ways in which the field of psychology has reacted towards it. A brief history of the meaning of multiculturalism is presented. The paper reviews the work of several authors, in particular Kymlicka, Taylor, and Gerd, who have been influential in the development of research about multiculturalism.

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"Multiculturalism can therefore be seen as the "weaning out" of the ethnic territory of citizens of a many-cultured democracy, under which multiculturalism is reflected at the social level with the psychological changes that occur within individual members of a society when they embrace many cultures: it has been argued that as a result of traumas suffered as part of a "minority" group, a member of that ethnic group may eschew their ethnicity and enter in to the multicultural mass at large in order to avoid being perceived, by society as whole, as a member of that traumatized group (Makedon, 1996). This phenomena, which is labeled as "escape from the traumatized self" by psychologists is well documented in ethnic and assimilation studies, in which people have been shown to disavow their native culture in favor of the dominant white culture (Makedon, 1996)."

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