The book “Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction” was published, translated into Arabic by Lubna Emad Turki. It presents the history of the term multiculturalism, which appeared in public discourses in the late sixties and early seventies of the twentieth century, when both Australia and Canada began to declare their support for it. Both countries needed to embrace multicultural identity.
This is the period in which Australia and Canada began to allow new immigration that began to “asianize” these two nations. Until then, Australia had implemented a policy that restricted immigration to whites, in accordance with the text of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, and Asians were considered incapable of immigration. To assimilate, and in 1971 there was official recognition of the need to help form a multicultural society, which paved the way for the complete abolition of racial conditions in 1973.
In the conclusion of the book, the author asks: Has cultural pluralism failed? He answers that European nation-states have decided that the era of multiculturalism is over, and it appears that governments, cultural elites, and large segments of the national population now view multiculturalism as a disaster, or at least a dangerously wrong turn in the reaction to the migration of non-white populations.
The author explains that minorities’ feelings of alienation from national culture and identity are much higher in countries such as Germany, which has implemented a guest worker system, and where official authorities have strongly resisted including cultural diversity in the nation’s heritage.
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