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multiculturalism

1. Multiculturalism
Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas de Castelo de Paiva
2010/2011

2. Multiculturalism
 It is the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures in a
specific place.
 Liberal multiculturalism assumes the existence of pre-existing cultures,
which relate to, and interact with, each other, but doesn’t examine the
hierarchies of power based in these interactions.
Critical multiculturalism is concerned with the institutions and practices
forming the whole society. It sees inequalities of power and racism,
recognizing the rights.

3. Around the World
• It is a more and more common phenomenon and it exists in all the
countries.
• The most multicultural countries are:
 the USA
 Canada
 the UK
 Australia
• Theoretically, it is accepted in most of the countries; however, this doesn’t
happen in practice.

4. In Europe
 Multiculturalism also exists in the European countries; however, in some of
them this is not well accepted, such as:
 in France
 in Germany
 The European Union is concerned with this subject and is trying to solve
this problem, by making laws and promoting the tolerance;
 This project, for example, aims at the communication among different
cultures which is a way to fight against the ethnic discrimination.

5. In Portugal
o There is a huge contrast between the old generation and the youngest one.
 Old people don’t accept this phenomenon very well;
 Young people easily join to this kind of interaction.
o There is a great number of different ethnicities in Portugal, among them
Chinese, gipsies, Ukrainians and people from the former Portuguese
colonies, like Angola, Cape Verde, among others.

6. In Portugal
o Unfortunately, these immigrants aren't well integrated in our society,
because most of them still live in slums or in not so pleasant neighbourhoods
in the suburbs of the cities.
o ACIME is a non-governmental organization that helps in the integration of
these immigrants and protects their rights.

7. In Castelo de Paiva
 Here there is a great acceptance of multiculturalism;
 The main ethnicities are Chinese, gipsies and Moroccans.
 A fact that proves our acceptance and respect towards other ethnicities
and cultures is this project meeting and the spontaneous acceptance of our
families of this project.