In the second chapter of Michael Walzer’s book, ‘On Toleration’, he introduces five distinct types of toleration which he calls regimes. The regimes that he describes are: multinational empires, international society, consociations, nation-states, and immigrant societies. This essay will be focusing mainly on nation-states and immigrant societies and how they are different, but also work together in many ways. But I will also give a brief description of the other three so that we have a good base of understanding for Walzer’s views on toleration.
Walzer describes multinational empires as, “various groups [that] are constitutes as autonomous or semi-autonomous communities that are political or legal as well as cultural or religious in character, and that rule themselves across a considerable rage of their activities” (Walzer 14). As for international society and toleration, Walzer describes it as, “all the groups that achieve statehood and all the practices that they …show more content…
This can cause riffs between the members of their own group more so than members of the dominant group in their new location as these groups have to learn to work within themselves to become strong enough to sustain their way of life in places where their way of life is not the societal norm. If these minority groups are able to sustain themselves, then it means that in order for the host nation-state to become an immigrant society, they need to take up values of multiculturalism which means that state support must be provided to these states. This can cause some issues because, as Walzer puts it, “were the state to aim at equalizing the groups it would have to undertake a considerable redistribution of resources and commit a considerable amount of public money” (Walzer 35), which therefore can cause riffs between the dominant and minority
Walzer describes multinational empires as, “various groups [that] are constitutes as autonomous or semi-autonomous communities that are political or legal as well as cultural or religious in character, and that rule themselves across a considerable rage of their activities” (Walzer 14). As for international society and toleration, Walzer describes it as, “all the groups that achieve statehood and all the practices that they …show more content…
This can cause riffs between the members of their own group more so than members of the dominant group in their new location as these groups have to learn to work within themselves to become strong enough to sustain their way of life in places where their way of life is not the societal norm. If these minority groups are able to sustain themselves, then it means that in order for the host nation-state to become an immigrant society, they need to take up values of multiculturalism which means that state support must be provided to these states. This can cause some issues because, as Walzer puts it, “were the state to aim at equalizing the groups it would have to undertake a considerable redistribution of resources and commit a considerable amount of public money” (Walzer 35), which therefore can cause riffs between the dominant and minority