(Name-mce) ListServ Multicultural Perspective from Germany

[bill at billhowe.org]

Note: this is an interesting article but too long to paste here. This is the
link-

http://www.cicero.de/97.php?ress_id=1
<http://www.cicero.de/97.php?ress_id=1&item=1300> &item=1300

 

 

Chili and Liberty 

von Amartya Sen

 

Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His new book,
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, will be published by W.W.
Norton this spring.

 

 

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The demand for multiculturalism is strong in the contemporary world. It is
much invoked in the making of social, cultural, and political policies,
particularly in Western Europe and America. This is not at all surprising,
since increased global contacts and interactions, and in particular
extensive migrations, have placed diverse practices of different cultures
next to one another. The general acceptance of the exhortation to "Love thy
neighbor" might have emerged when the neighbors led more or less the same
kind of life ("Let's continue this conversation next Sunday morning when the
organist takes a break"), but the same entreaty to love one's neighbors now
requires people to take an interest in the very diverse living modes of
proximate people. That this is not an easy task has been vividly illustrated
once again by the confusion surrounding the recent Danish cartoons of the
Prophet Mohammed and the fury they generated. And yet the globalized nature
of the contemporary world does not allow the luxury of ignoring the
difficult questions that multiculturalism raises.

 





Bill Howe 
 <http://www.billhowe.org/> http://www.billhowe.org

 
Past-President 

National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
 <http://www.nameorg.org/> http://www.nameorg.org

 

 

 

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