The Concept Of ‘Multiculturality’ History Of The United States

The concept of ‘multiculturality’ history of the United States

As we advanced in the previous section, the concept "multiculturalism" arises from the union of two terms: multiple and culture plus isism. Appears in the US in the second half of the twentieth century. Estrach Mira, N.

In his article, Barabas, A (2015), denies the above, because it states that according to Bhikhu Parekh (2004), the multicultural movement appeared in 1970, but, in Canada and Australia, and a little later already if it appears in the United States,England, Germany and France.

Multiculturality may seem like a recent term, since it has been used frequently in recent. Although it seems novel, it is not, because it is a historical term. Valdemoros, Ramírez.

According to the National Center for Educational Information and Communication (CNICE), “the multicultural is not a recent social phenomenon, since the coexistence between peoples of different race or different social status was characteristic in ancient times;In some cases they submitted to each other;In others, they lived in villages of different geographical or ethnic origins (Jews, Moors and Christians in medieval Spain) ”.

On the one hand, Azurmendi, M, exposes us a story about how multiculturalism arose: the term, the Canadian government probably coined to refer to the new policy of the late 60s. As the question of Quebec was raised as a nation other than the Canadian, the government created this concept to indicate the three social entities: Anglophone, Francophone and that of the aborigines, being the first ethnic majority and the remaining two the minority the minority.

Subsequently, it also covered immigrants, called ethnic minorities. With this concept, what they intended was to group the set of citizens by blocks or ethnicities, separated by their linguistic origin and treat them as minorities.

In the 70s, "multiculturalism" began to relate to the territory, language and history that are in a democratic state. They began to expand those minorities with gay and lesbian groups, women and even disabled.

On the other hand, Sales Ciges, A. and García López, R., The following information about the history of the concept in question shows us in their document: the term arises in the United States through a claiming movement of the American black community. This fights social and political discrimination and for the implementation of civil rights that denied them as citizens. In addition, to these claims, minority ethnic groups were added for their recognition of their sociocultural identity. In the 70s, groups such as homosexuals, women, disabled and the elderly, among others, were grouped to claim their interests and power to end the discrimination that exists towards them by society.

The impact of these movements for equal social, political, economic, cultural and educational opportunities also moved to other countries such as England, Canada, Australia, etc., And on the other hand, minority ethnic groups faced the monocultural and assimilationist ideology that prevented them from developing sociocultural pluralism as a democratic basic foundation.