QUESTION: Explain and Assess the European and International Practices of Intercultural Dialogue in View of the Ongoing Conceptual Debate Between Multiculturalism and Interculturalism.
Introduction: In the last few decades, the debate between multiculturalism and interculturalism has come under the attack in political and academic discourses. Simultaneously, European Governments have accommodated key aspects of multiculturalism and interculturalism policies, both nationally and internationally. In academic debates, it has been suggested that multiculturalism can be replaced by interculturalism. The growing fast diversity in Europe should be taken into consideration as a cultural reality at the individual and collective level. And the political …show more content…
Intercultural dialogue can be defined as a process of communication between people from different backgrounds where the main purpose is to learn from each other so that they can change and grow for the welfare of the respective groups and …show more content…
However, how the proposed Habermas theory of individual rights is applicable to all human beings as the individual rights based approach challenges the one-sidedness of traditional liberal understandings. Moreover, some people see human rights as a multiple solid structure reserved for a healthy and equitable society whereas some think the rights are age-old values at the cores of human's identities.
Holmes et al (2016) prescribes that intercultural is sort of dialogic communication for upbringing a peaceful and democratic society. Yet the term often encounters the people's daily lives. The concept of intercultural communication is problematic in the age of globalization, and migration where there is extreme possibility of conflict, vulnerability and
Introduction: In the last few decades, the debate between multiculturalism and interculturalism has come under the attack in political and academic discourses. Simultaneously, European Governments have accommodated key aspects of multiculturalism and interculturalism policies, both nationally and internationally. In academic debates, it has been suggested that multiculturalism can be replaced by interculturalism. The growing fast diversity in Europe should be taken into consideration as a cultural reality at the individual and collective level. And the political …show more content…
Intercultural dialogue can be defined as a process of communication between people from different backgrounds where the main purpose is to learn from each other so that they can change and grow for the welfare of the respective groups and …show more content…
However, how the proposed Habermas theory of individual rights is applicable to all human beings as the individual rights based approach challenges the one-sidedness of traditional liberal understandings. Moreover, some people see human rights as a multiple solid structure reserved for a healthy and equitable society whereas some think the rights are age-old values at the cores of human's identities.
Holmes et al (2016) prescribes that intercultural is sort of dialogic communication for upbringing a peaceful and democratic society. Yet the term often encounters the people's daily lives. The concept of intercultural communication is problematic in the age of globalization, and migration where there is extreme possibility of conflict, vulnerability and