multiculturalist
- adjective
- /ˌmʌltiˈkʌltʃərəlɪst/
- The school's multiculturalist approach promotes understanding among students from diverse backgrounds.
- multiculturalist ideology
Examples
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The multiculturalist feminists trumpet the injustices, but dispense with the honor.
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Tiedt and Tiedt (1990) note that multiculturalist teachers learn with their students through an empowering experience of collective construction of culturally influenced meaning.
Academic text (1995) -
And why should she, given the multiculturalist critique of academic standards?
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The very multiculturalist understanding of "culture" proves to be political rather than anthropological.
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Multiculturalist forces have more say than ever on what is allowed in textbooks or what is said in classrooms.
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The Stanford decision was typical of the multiculturalist disparagement of the titans of Western thought.
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There is a pronounced tendency in contemporary postmodern, feminist, and multiculturalist criticism to emphasize cultural and political issues while avoiding any discussion of economic alternatives.
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Right brushed aside the idea of "the common good," as being a front for big government, and the multiculturalist Left dismissed it as an insidious mask for white male power.
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A multiculturalist society celebrates and respects the traditions of all its cultural groups.
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Many cities have adopted multiculturalist policies to ensure equal representation for all ethnic communities.
Synonyms
Having people from many countries and backgrounds living and working together
Believing that all people should have equal rights and chances
Accepting and respecting many different groups and beliefs
Supporting acceptance of people with different religious or social beliefs
Believing in equal rights and chances for all people
Antonyms
- Offensive
A person who believes one race is better than others and wants that race to have power
How Inclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
multiculturalist = multicultural (transparent) = multi + culture + al + ist
Adding -ist to multicultural yields a regular form meaning a supporter of, or one associated with, multicultural ideas.
Etymology
Multiculturalist combines multi- 'many' and culture 'ways of life', with the ending -ist showing a belief or approach, like in multiple and artist. So a multiculturalist approach is one that supports the presence and equal value of many different cultures in a society.