Interculturalism - 9781442647763

InterculturalismA View from Quebec\nAuthor(s): Gerard Bouchard, Howard Scott, Charles Taylor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442647763, 978-1442647763\nSynopsis\nAccommodating ethnic diversity is a major challenge for all democratic nations and a topic that has attracted a great deal of attention in the last few decades. Within Quebec, a new approach has emerged that seeks a balance between the needs of minorities and those of the majority.\n\n In Interculturalism, sociologist and historian Grard Bouchard presents his vision of interculturalism as a model for the management of diversity. A pluralist approach which recognizes the existence of a cultural majority whose rights must also be acknowledged, interculturalism constitutes an important alternative to multiculturalism both in Canada and internationally. Written by one of Quebecs leading public intellectuals and the co-chair of the Bouchard-Tayl.