caricaturing Jews and non-Germans. Seeing the horror of where this culminated, the victorious west adopted somewhat of a secular approach to identity so that as well as not having an official religion, they did not have official values or myths of a national character. It was believed that the secular approach (that is sometimes erroneously defined as multiculturalism) would be the best method to achieve positive relations with the diverse peoples of their own countries and with other countries in a globalised world.
