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What is the difference between multicultural and multiculturalism?

multicultural | multiculturalism | Derived terms |

Multiculturalism is a derived term of multicultural.

Multiculturalism is a related term of multicultural.



As an adjective multicultural

is relating or pertaining to several different cultures.

As a noun multiculturalism is

the characteristics of a society, city etc. which has many different ethnic or national cultures mingling freely; political or social policies which support or encourage such coexistence.

multicultural

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating or pertaining to several different cultures
  • Quotations
  • :* 31.X.2001' Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more '''multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago. - '' The Guardian (2001)
  • Derived terms

    * multicult * multiculti * multiculturalism * Multicultural London English * multiculturally

    multiculturalism

    Noun

  • The characteristics of a society, city etc. which has many different ethnic or national cultures mingling freely; political or social policies which support or encourage such coexistence.
  • * 1991 , Barbara Ehrenreich, Time , 8 Apr 1991:
  • Something had to replace the threat of communism, and at last a workable substitute is at hand. "Multiculturalism ," as the new menace is known, has been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism -- take your choice.
  • * 2005 , David Davis MP, Daily Telegraph , 3 Aug 2005:
  • Britain has pursued a policy of multiculturalism - allowing people of different cultures to settle without expecting them to integrate into society.
  • * 2011 , "On a mat and a prayer", The Economist , 7 Apr 2011:
  • Earlier this year he said multiculturalism had “failed”, that immigrants needed to “melt” into French society, and that “we do not want ostentatious prayers in the street in France.”

    See also

    * cosmopolitan