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Politika multikulturalnosti i otpor većine
Policy of Multiculturalism and Resistance of Majority

Author(s): Goran Bašić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: multiculturalism; ethno-cultural minority; South-east Europe; European Union;

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the challenges faced by the theoretical thought and practice in Europe concerning the politics of. Though multiculturalism is a complex phenomenon assuming that many social diversities should be brought into accord, in the practice of the Central and Southeast European states it is reduced to the identification of the identities and the recognition of the ethno-cultural minorities’ rights. In these regions the politics of multiculturalism meets the resistance of the majority as well as the barriers that slow down their social development. The antagonists of multiculturalism find their allies in conservative though real opinions of the intellectuals and politicians in the West who are afraid that a too fast expansion of the European Union may jeopardize its economic development and disturb even more its political stability.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 149-159
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Serbian