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Multiculturalism and European integration

Multiculturalism became an issue with the growing emancipation of previously marginalized national and ethnic minorities and immigrant communities and was heralded as an effective tool against cultural assimilation by the dominant majority culture. As such, the issue of multiculturalism arises as a theoretical and practical problem primarily in Western Europe, Canada, and Australia where it is estabilished as a model for preserving the cultural identity of the newly arriving immigrant communities, mostly through education. The promlem of multiculturalism in the Postcommunist world is quite different. The breakdown of Communism, the dissolution of the former Soviet and Yugoslav states, the formation of the new independent states and the building of a democratic order - these major social transformations in the life of society have changed many tenets of social structure within which the problem of multiculturalism should be researched and understood. The problem of multiculturalism in all its aspects - cultural, social, political, economic, conceptual, educational, etc. - seems to be one of the major concerns in any investigation of social structural changes.

multiculturalism, postcommunism, civilization, toleration, integration

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