Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is a word that describes a society where many different cultures live together. It is the simple fact of cultural diversity.

In a multicultural society, there is not an official (decided by the people in charge) culture that every person must be a part of. Instead, all cultures are respected as much as each other.

A multicultural society can result when people from many different countries migrate to one place, or an empire conquers many countries. Tolerance is a big help for multiculturalism. Xenophobia makes it difficult.

A multicultural society would be composed of people from different ethnic backgrounds and cultures living and working together. In society when people from different backgrounds link with each other's culture shows the acceptance of each other's culture and background.

1. In sociology and in everyday usage, it is a synonym for "ethnic pluralism", with the two terms often used interchangeably, for example, a cultural pluralism[1] in which various ethnic groups collaborate and enter into a dialogue with one another without having to sacrifice their particular identities.
2. In reference to sociology, multiculturalism is the end-state of either a natural or artificial process (for example legally-controlled immigration) and occurs on either a large national scale or on a smaller scale within a nation's communities.
3. On a large scale, it can occur as a result of either legal or illegal migration to and from different jurisdictions around the world (for example, Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in the 5th century or the colonisation of the Americas by Europeans, Africans and Asians since the 16th century).
4. The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and of colloquial use.