Multiculturalism refers to cultural diversity where two or more groups with distinctive beliefs and cultures exist in a society. It implies a positive endorsement of cultural diversity. Multiculturalists believe that cultural diversity is compatible with political cohesion and that people have multiple identities. Living in a multicultural society fosters cross-cultural tolerance and understanding as people communicate, share ideas, and learn from each other's perspectives. While some argue that multiculturalism could lead to the loss of cultural identity, overall there are more advantages such as the promotion of respect, tolerance, and a more peaceful environment between different cultures.

2. What is multiculturalism?
 As a descriptive term it refers to cultural diversity where two or more groups
with distinctive beliefs/cultures exist in a society.
It can also refer to government policy as a formal recognition of the
cultural distinctiveness of particular groups.
It implies a positive endorsement of cultural diversity.

3. Diversity
 Multiculturalists believe that cultural
diversity is compatible with political
cohesion. People have multiple identities
and therefore loyalties.
People are able to participate in society
because they have a firm and secure identity
rooted in their own culture. Denial of culture
results in isolation and powerlessness providing
a breeding ground for extremism.
Diversity should be celebrated. It fosters
cross cultural tolerance and understanding.

4. The advantages and the disadvantages of
a multicultural society
 Living in a multicultural society with people with different traditions and
perspectives, makes people communicate with each other. When people
communicate, they share ideas and perspectives, so everyone learns a
new way to see the world or even a small thing or situation. So there is a
development in an intellectual way. Being in a multicultural society also
leads to a more open-minded population; people start to see situations
from another point of view.

5. The advantages and the disadvantages of
a multicultural society
 When people are together and cooperate to the development of
communication, it is promoted the respect and the tolerance between
different cultures. People start to feel comfortable living and interacting
with people from different countries or with different perspectives. A
multicultural society also makes people being less racist and leads to a
non discrimination society, having a more peaceful environment.

6. The advantages and the disadvantages of
a multicultural society
 As we can see, all of these are advantages of a multicultural society;
however there still have disadvantages with living in a multicultural society
because sometimes people can think that this can leads to the
destruction of the definition of each culture, and people think that they
start to lose identity.
So, a multicultural society has advantages and disadvantages, however
there are a lot more advantages. We can say that living in a multicultural
society is the best to the development of the communication between
cultures and it promotes a peaceful environment.

7. We have to learn to set aside our differences and accept each other for
what we are. If there wasn’t such and ethnic and cultural difference in our
society life wouldn’t be as interesting as it is.

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 Work presented by: Ana Carolina, nº1.
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