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the discourse on toleration. Rowan Williams, considered a liberal philosophical person, has used the language of Enlightenment to arrive at the conclusion that multicultural and multifaith policies are a necessity. In a sense, he hijacks the Enlightenment from secular liberals.
The initiative proposed by the Archbishop was only a proposal. Far more serious are the consequences of multicultural policies actually implemented in the eighties. When Margaret Thatcher was swept to power in 1979 on an anti-immigrant wave, the multicultural policy initiated by the Labour government in the sixties was more or less scuttled. In the face of the mounting racism, certain boroughs and councils where Labour was in power continued to try and implement the provisions of the 1976 Race Relations Act. However in doing so, they pursued an aggressive policy of rooting out racial discrimination. The focus was on rights and making discrimination punishable, with little effort to promote understanding in the white communities. Some of these councils were left-wing and came to be known as the “loony left.” The aggressive pursuit of racial equality measures, especially in the ethnic monitoring of housing allocations led to further alienation among the white communities, some of whom were equally deprived. This “Stalinist” approach allowed the right-wing press to re-inforce a sense of victimization on the part of white communities. There was a feeling that “positive discrimination” was being practiced in favor of
Object Description
| Title | Negotiating pluralism and tribalism in liberal democratic societies |
| Author | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Author email | sadagopa@usc.edu; shobasadagopan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-22 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lloyd, Sharon |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dreher, John Keating, Gregory |
| Abstract | My aim in this dissertation is to enquire whether toleration as a practice is achievable. It is prior to the question of how it can be grounded as a virtue. I argue that in liberal democratic societies where there are struggles for recognition on the part of ethnocultural groups, it is possible to negotiate pluralism and tribalism in a way that a stable pluralist society can be maintained. My core thesis rests on a theory of interdependence based both on a theory of human nature and on the material fact of globalization. Insofar as we affirm our nature as human beings engaged in productive activity with other human beings, insofar as we value a world that facilitates that activity, toleration is desirable. It is achievable because with globalization there is a tendency towards homogenization that erodes cultural differences. There is less reason for conflict because what we have in common, our interdependence, goes far deeper than culture. A further sufficient condition may be found in well thought-out policies that are executed through education and dialogue. |
| Keyword | toleration; value pluralism; liberalism; cultural homogenization; globalization; common citizenship |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1658 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Sadagopan-2395 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Sadagopan-2395.pdf |
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| Title | Page 19 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 16 the discourse on toleration. Rowan Williams, considered a liberal philosophical person, has used the language of Enlightenment to arrive at the conclusion that multicultural and multifaith policies are a necessity. In a sense, he hijacks the Enlightenment from secular liberals. The initiative proposed by the Archbishop was only a proposal. Far more serious are the consequences of multicultural policies actually implemented in the eighties. When Margaret Thatcher was swept to power in 1979 on an anti-immigrant wave, the multicultural policy initiated by the Labour government in the sixties was more or less scuttled. In the face of the mounting racism, certain boroughs and councils where Labour was in power continued to try and implement the provisions of the 1976 Race Relations Act. However in doing so, they pursued an aggressive policy of rooting out racial discrimination. The focus was on rights and making discrimination punishable, with little effort to promote understanding in the white communities. Some of these councils were left-wing and came to be known as the “loony left.” The aggressive pursuit of racial equality measures, especially in the ethnic monitoring of housing allocations led to further alienation among the white communities, some of whom were equally deprived. This “Stalinist” approach allowed the right-wing press to re-inforce a sense of victimization on the part of white communities. There was a feeling that “positive discrimination” was being practiced in favor of |
