Our Cultures, Our Wealthy: MULTICULTURALISM VS PLURALISM

“As I argue, multiculturalism is not about minorities, for that implies the majority culture is uncritically accepted and used to judge the claims and define the rights of minorities. multiculturalism is about the proper terms of relationship between different cultural communities.” (Bhikhu C. Parekh, Rethinking multiculturalism: cultural diversity and political theory [United Kingdom: Macmillan, 2000] 13)
“Multiculturalism is a philosophy which is also sometimes interpreted as an ideology that requires a union of various cultural groups with political rights and social status are equal in modern society. The term multicultural is often used to describe the unity of the various different ethnic communities within a country” (http://risgalutfi.blog.ugm.ac.id/2010/10/05/multikultur/ [September 22, 2011 ; 11:00)

“Pluralism is a framework where there is interaction of several groups that show mutual respect and tolerance of each other. They live together (coexistence) in the absence of conflict and assimilation” (http://risgalutfi.blog.ugm.ac.id/2010/10/05/multikultur/ [September 22, 2011 ; 11:00)
"The existence of many different group in one society, for example people of different races or different political or religious beliefs: cultural or political pluralism” (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 2000)

The difference is there in principle. Multiculturalism is the difference principle is rooted in the individualistic, liberal, who understand the cultural differences, understand the differences or religious differences of wealth, politics, ideology, etc., to understand not only limited impact due to the emergence of such differences (passive-liberals), different with Pluralism who understand the differences and then it was upgraded to an understanding of tolerance and mutual help, mutual help among religious, rather than the confusion of religious teachings, but from the people and of humanity (is the active-participatory)

Our Cultures, Our Wealthy