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Benefits of multiculturalism to the cummunity

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Benefits of Multiculturalism to the Community

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Multiculturalism is very beneficial to the modern day community because it helps preserve national identity , and contributes to various aspects of human development . Multiculturalism is defined as the integration of the social and political factions in the society and allowing different cultures the freedom of expression . It is true that the diversity is the strength of any people and we are able to learn from one another (Moylan , para .1 . There has been a heated debate

over multiculturalism in Canada for decades . The attention devoted to the media , the influx of foreigners , the claim for reasonable accommodation and the potential terrorism threat have led to the rising intensity of such debates in the recent decade . These debates have focused on the aspects referred to as dialectics of multiculturalism ' based on five sets of negative and positive impacts of multiculturalism by Fleras and Eliot . The central argument in most of these debates has been the on the contribution of mulitcuralism to the harmony and integration or its role in promoting conflict or fragmentation (Garcea ,

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The opponents of multiculturalism give various reasons for its abolition . Most of them see not as a uniting factor but rather as an obstacle to the very unity in the community . For instance , it has been argued that multiculturalism poses a lot of challenges in the Canadian legal system and also in the values and norms of the western society creating room for...

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