Strategii multiculturaliste neliberale decente şi indecente
Decent and indecent illiberal multicultural strategies

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers the recent official reactions in several European countries to the German chancellor Angela Merkel’s claim that “Multikulti has failed totally”. It argues that such developments are also the result of the erosion of the institutional and normative strength of fundamental rights and liberties against the principle of “cultural defense”. As this notion is often identified with forms of illiberal multiculturalism, the notion of multiculturalism is itself in danger of being compromised. However, in relation to the canonical definition of multiculturalism one should also consider the multicultural strategies which have so far proved practically useful: cultural and territorial autonomies, educational institutions in minorities’ mother tongues etc. The study shows that, given the demands and the issues raised by the main Romanian minorities, the multicultural strategy may well prove successful in the case of the Hungarian community, though not in the case of Roma.

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