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Full Idea
Liberal multiculturalism challenges status inequalities while preserving individual freedom. …Conservative multiculturalism replaces liberal principles with a communitarian politics of the common good, at least at the local or group level.
Gist of Idea
Multiculturalism is liberal if it challenges inequality, conservative if it emphasises common good
Source
Will Kymlicka (Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd edn) [2002], 8.6)
Book Ref
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd ed)' [OUP 2002], p.369
A Reaction
[compressed] This sounds a bit simplistic. Recent emphasis on 'the common good', in the face of white supremacists etc., seems admirable, but surely challenging inequalities promotes the common good? Minority cultures are often conservative.
| 23380 | Some individuals can gain citizenship as part of a group, rather than as mere individuals [Kymlicka] |
| 23381 | The status hierarchy is independent of the economic hierarchy [Kymlicka] |
| 23383 | Some multiculturalists defended the rights of cohesive minorities against liberal individualism [Kymlicka] |
| 23384 | 'Culturalist' liberals say that even liberal individuals may need minority rights [Kymlicka] |
| 23385 | Multiculturalism may entail men dominating women in minority groups [Kymlicka] |
| 23386 | Liberals must prefer minority right which are freedoms, not restrictions [Kymlicka] |
| 23389 | Why shouldn't national minorities have their own right to nation-build? [Kymlicka] |
| 23391 | Multiculturalism is liberal if it challenges inequality, conservative if it emphasises common good [Kymlicka] |
| 20554 | Multiculturalism is a barrier to the whole state being a community [Swift] |
| 22841 | Identity multiculturalism emerges from communitarianism, preferring community to humanity [Charvet] |