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Multiculturalism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - dispossesion of land
      - destruction of cultural practices
      - This background calls into question the legitimacy of the state’s authority over aboriginal peoples and provides a prima facie case for special rights and protections for indigenous groups, including the right of self-government.
  - - - purpose
        
        the purpose is to better understand the interplay of racial, economic, sex-based, and gender-based oppression (among others) and to ensure no one group is disproportionately affected by political actions, present and future.
      - opposed by
        
        Center right and far left
        
        Many socialists, anarchists and ideological Marxists have deeply criticized identity politics for its divisive nature, claiming that it forms identities that can undermine proletariat unity and the class struggle as a whole
  - - - The first known written appearance of the term is found in the April 1977 statement of the Black feminist socialist group, Combahee River Collective, which was originally printed in 1979's Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism,
  - - - Arab identity politics
      - Asian-American identity politics
      - Black and Black feminist identity politics
      - White identity politics
- - - - proponents of multiculturalism find common ground in rejecting the ideal of the “melting pot” in which members of minority groups are expected to assimilate into the dominant culture.
        
        Proponents: a person who advocates a theory, proposal, or course of action.
        
        Instead, proponents of multiculturalism endorse an ideal in which members of minority groups can maintain their distinctive collective identities and practices.
    - - members of minority cultural groups face barriers in pursuing their social practices in ways that members of dominant groups do not.
        
        Multiculturalism is part of a broader political movement for greater inclusion of marginalized groups, including African Americans, women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities