|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910665099903321 |
|
|
Autore |
Soutphommasane Tim |
|
|
Titolo |
Don't go back to where you came from [[electronic resource] ] : why multiculturalism works / / Tim Soutphommasane |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Sydney, : NewSouth Publishing, 2012 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (252 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Multiculturalism - Australia |
Cultural pluralism - Australia |
Electronic books. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-231) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The life and times of multiculturalism""; ""2. The Australian model""; ""3. How racist is this country?""; ""4. A bigger Australia""; ""5. The sovereignty of fear""; ""Afterword: Having a go""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Tim Soutphommasane boldly stakes a claim for the overwhelming success of multiculturalism in Australia. European governments are declaring multiculturalism a failure, with many conservatives in Australia hastening to agree. But is a multicultural approach to integration and diversity really as destructive as critics say? Have we been too quick to declare its demise? Offering an unflinching and informed defence of cultural diversity, Soutphommasane shows that multiculturalism is more than laksa, kebabs or souvlaki and that it doesn't automatically spell cultural relativism, ethnic ghettos or re |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|