http://www.opendemocracy.net/colonial_multiculturalism.jsp Comments for "Multiculturalism: a view from Sri Lanka, Nira Wickramasinghe " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/colonial_multiculturalism.jsp <p><font class="articleTxtBody">Reading Tariq Modood&#39;s article &quot;<a href="/faith-terrorism/multiculturalism_4627.jsp">Multiculturalism, citizenship and national identity</a>&quot; (17 May 2007) led me to reflect on how different the public debate on multiculturalism is in the United Kingdom and in a country such as Sri Lanka where multicultural policies have been grudgingly agreed to in order to answer the need for recognition by groups that have a claim to nationhood and self-determination. If there is as yet no &quot;backlash&quot; of the kind that has evidently occurred in Britain, the reason is that the debate in <a href="http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/srilanka.pdf" target="_blank">Sri Lanka</a> is centred elsewhere: not on the merits or otherwise of multiculturalism, but on whether we are or are not a multicultural state at all!</font></p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/colonial_multiculturalism.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/colonial_multiculturalism.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/colonial_multiculturalism.jsp#comment Creative Commons normal europe &amp; islam faith &amp; ideas Nira Wickramasinghe Wed, 30 May 2007 16:55:47 +0100 admin 19632 at http://www.opendemocracy.net