New Identity Concepts in Multicultural Society
It is a common scenario to find people living together with different religions, races, and nationalities. It brings the concept of metropolitan, which is common in large cities like London, Berlin, New York, and many others. Multiculturalism refers to the acceptance and encouragement of manifold ethnicities in a geographical area at organizational levels like nations, cities, businesses, and schools. A multicultural society should ensure uniformity and does not give priority to any single community, ethnic group, or religion.
A multicultural society is advantageous because it allows people to express themselves in society. People get to know many lifestyles, cultures, traditions, habits, music, and cuisine. There are several restaurants offering their unique delicacies and drinks. People get to learn new ideas and new insights into doing things. It is also associated with some disadvantages. Cultural diversity may lead to the erosion of the cultural values of the host community. People come with new ideas, which may overpower the existing values, hence taking over. Cultural diversity means entail embracing many languages, religion, and intermarriages.
A distinctive exemplar is Canada which is highlighted as advanced and dissimilar. Most immigrants are from Asia, and they settle in large cities like Montreal and Toronto, and the war against racism is heightened. The Asians bring with them new business skills where they operate gargantuan hotels and restaurants. The metaphor, melting pot, is used to imply how immigrants mix up into the population without government intrusion. The blacks intermingled with the whites and intermarried. Discrimination against color got away with time, and the blacks were allowed to participate in policy issues until today, we have an African American president. Some countries receive foreign cultural values more than others. One will find information written and translated in many languages, as opposed to Germany, where information is mainly in German and English.