Sudah menjadi kodrat bahwa kehidupan dunia ini bersifat plural, tidak tunggal, baik karena factor alam, factor sejarah, factor social maupun politik, karena itu perwatakan kehidupan menjadi multicultural, karena masing-masing komunitas mengekpresikan aspirasinya sesuai dengan lingkungan budaya masing-masing. Adalah ulah manusia yang hegemonic yang berusaha menumpas multikulturalisme, baik atas …
Many post-communist countries in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are being encouraged, indeed pressured, by Western countries to improve their treatment of ethnic and national minorities and to adopt Western models of minority rights. But what are these Western models? Will they work in Eastern Europe? Here, Will Kymlicka describes a model of Western "liberal pluralism," disc…
This volume assembles a group of leading regional experts to formulate the first rigorous and comprehensive consideration of multiculturalism debates in South and East Asia. Through close examination of pre-colonial traditions, colonial legacies, and post-colonial ideologies, this volume sheds new light on religious and ethnic conflict in the area, and presents a ground-breaking assessment of w…