Saturday, February 21, 2015
What is the difference between multiculturalism and ethnopluralism?
Multiculturalism attempts to be
universal, and in doing so, no culture is supported---although people
privately tend to prefer their own. Ethnopluralism takes seriously
the differences in ethnic cultures and groups, enough to allow them to
flourish, and preferably in their own territories. Then, as Angelo Codevilla wrote, “good
relations” become not ends in themselves but a way to deal with one
another in each country, preferably with cooperative competition.
Ethnopluralism is closely harmonious
with real human nature, which is not only ethnocentric and often
xenophobic, but also in every culture ever studied, human
nature included kin-selection, incest taboos, marriage, hierarchy,
division of labor, gender differentiation, localism, and group
selection as the center of selection. If a culture proposes to not
include these things the culture does not last long and eventually
returns to these things.
My hope is that one day the separation
of powers and states inherent in the United States Constitution will
deepen to see states and regions as virtual ethnostates. This might
occur in any case with more primitive separations and
secessions---personally, I could only agree to doing it legally and
conservatively....But our depraved and controlled culture today seems not yet ready to even think about this return to health.
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