Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism can be defined in various ways: as the cultural diversity of a nation, as social policy, as ideology endorsing the value and expression of cultural pluralism and as embodied by culturally complex or blended social identities Multiculturalism is a policy aimed at preserving and developing cultural differences in a particular country and in the world as a whole, and theory or ideology justifying such a policy. Multiculturalism is opposed to the concept of a "melting pot", where it is supposed to merge all cultures into one. In 1997, only the Labor government of Tony Blair proclaimed multiculturalism at the