TOLERANCE AND MULTICULTURAL POLICIES
TOLERANCE AND MULTICULTURAL POLICIES

Summary/Abstract: Tolerance is desirable. It also has a hidden dimension, negative dimension, involving a power ratio of subordination, between the tolerant and the tolerated, which could at any time give rise to postponed conflicts for a while. The negative character of tolerance is visible in the form of the danger of substituting the authentic with what is relevant as being important; tolerance implies the recognition and protection of evil and the unacceptable. It was harnessed under two assumptions: that an attitude of recognizing the value of personal choice, in relation to religious and moral truth and as a restraint from the negative appreciation of the beliefs of others and their acceptance that they are theoretically justified. Religious minorities do not always or totally confused with ethnic minorities. In terms of identity diversity the state law must develop multicultural policies.Affirmation of community identity based on the principle of tolerance can adversely affect minority groups, including the religious ones, through the projections on them, that resentment of the majority group. In a tolerant environment, in case of “crisis”, minorities may become “scapegoats” of the majority or fundamentalist discourse. The discourse of multicultural policies pursues both tolerance and acceptance of the other as different. Assumption by the political will of the ideology of multiculturalism establishes the general frameworks for a dialogue between religious minority and majority, as well as inter-religious dialogue. The basis for opening such a dialogue is the responsibility of the state, national and multicultural to ensure the environment for the integration of the inter-confessional and the inter-religious dialogue in the multicultural dialogue.

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