DEMOKRACJA LIBERALNA I WIELOKULTUROWOŚĆ
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND MULTICULTURALISM

Summary/Abstract: People have always migrated to places that offer opportunities to satisfy their needs. This movement has intensified over time, resulting in today's culturally diverse social spaces. Countries that recognize such diversity are liberal democracies, states defined by freedom, individualism, human rights, private property, free market, equality, and self-governance. These are the values that characterize societies belonging to the contemporary civilization known as the West, in contrast to authoritarian countries that do not respect diversity. Multiculturalism, in turn, entails freedom, equality, and respect for different cultures and the people who represent them. Recognition of multiculturalism is thus associated with liberal democracies, which grant freedom and equal rights to all. But is the correspondence between liberal democracy and multiculturalism inviolable? Such is the central question of this article, in which the author examines not only the process by which multiculturalism is recognized within liberal democracies, but also the contradictions between the values underlying liberal democracy and multiculturalism.

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