Multiculturalism: A model of peaceful coexistence
By: Shukla, Sanjay Kumar
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BookPublisher: Dialogue Description: 21(4), Apr-Jun, 2020: p.40-49.Subject(s): Multiculturalism
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DialogueSummary: The traditional notion of culture (Sanskriti) refers to the refinement of the human nature in a broad sense. There are three obvious and interconnected dimensions of ‘culture’ in this sense. There is first the process of improvement (Samskâra or Sâdhanâ) effected in man as an individual. In the second place, culture would have the sense of an objective order of rules, goals and symbols belonging to a specific society of men, which impels and guides the transformation of the individual, and lastly there is the historical tradition of that society and of mankind in general within which the specific socio-cultural order subsists as a changing form or structure. Culture is the social expression of value seeking symbolically expressive human consciousness. Religion and ethics constitute the primary value system, while language, ritual and art illustrate its symbolization. It is pressing need to raise the issue that why we witness cultural clashes in a pluralistic society. They are not constituted merely by the innumerable individuals with differing beliefs and practices. The cultural conflict is mainly due to narrow identification which diverts the self from its essential character of seeking self-realization, and this spiritual derailment produces conflicts of interests and imperfect communication between different cultural groups. Cultural difference is expressed in the terminology of identity, togetherness and difference. Identity is a specific interrelationship between self and otherness. Ethnocentrism means inscribing positive. Reproduced
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The traditional notion of culture (Sanskriti) refers to the refinement of the human nature in a broad sense. There are three obvious and interconnected dimensions of ‘culture’ in this sense. There is first the process of improvement (Samskâra or Sâdhanâ) effected in man as an individual. In the second place, culture would have the sense of an objective order of rules, goals and symbols belonging to a specific society of men, which impels and guides the transformation of the individual, and lastly there is the historical tradition of that society and of mankind in general within which the specific socio-cultural order subsists as a changing form or structure. Culture is the social expression of value seeking symbolically expressive human consciousness. Religion and ethics constitute the primary value system, while language, ritual and art illustrate its symbolization. It is pressing need to raise the issue that why we witness cultural clashes in a pluralistic society. They are not constituted merely by the innumerable individuals with differing beliefs and practices. The cultural conflict is mainly due to narrow identification which diverts the self from its essential character of seeking self-realization, and this spiritual derailment produces conflicts of interests and imperfect communication between different cultural groups. Cultural difference is expressed in the terminology of identity, togetherness and difference. Identity is a specific interrelationship between self and otherness. Ethnocentrism means inscribing positive. Reproduced
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