Multicultural Nature Research Articles

Bilingualism and language attitude in Melilla (Spain)

This study examines levels of bilingualism and language attitude in the autonomous Spanish city of Melilla. Located on the North African coast, Melilla has a population of 86,000 inhabitants that is roughly divided between residents of Iberian origin and residents of North African Origin. Based on responses to a language questionnaire (111 participants) and sociolinguistic interviews (20 participants), our results show high levels of bilingualism between Spanish and Tamazight among the sector of the population that is of North African origin, while the population of Iberian origin remains monolingual in Spanish. We also show that Spanish is the dominant language in the public domain, including administration and education, while Tamazight is maintained as a family and community language. Overall, the participants in our study express positive attitude towards the Melillan variety of Spanish and Tamazight, and their co-existence as part of the multicultural nature of the city.

Strategic Solidarities: Cultural Festivals, Relational Encounters and Diasporic Youth Identities

ABSTRACT Cultural festivals have grown in diversity, scale and popularity in many migrant-receiving societies in recent years and schools have increasingly become involved in supporting these for intercultural exchange and celebration. While prior research has found that cultural festivals play a significant role in maintaining and enhancing cultural traditions, much less research has focused on the role that festivals play as sites of conviviality, cross-cultural encounters and solidarity – especially for school-aged young people. In this paper we examine three school-focused cultural festivals held in Aotearoa New Zealand, paying particular attention to how the diverse relational solidarities encouraged through cultural festivals shaped the identities of diasporic youth. A theoretical lens of solidarity was used to analyse the relational bonds formed through festival attendance, and how these might foster new possibilities for identity formation in multicultural nations. Our study revealed how three forms of solidarities (ethnic, trans-ethnic and school-based) served to affirm traditional cultural practices and identities, as well as strategically craft new, often plural identities. We reflect on the productive and inventive nature of such solidarities and how festivals provided a space to articulate counter-narratives about diasporic youth and assertions of status, belonging and citizenship.

BHINNEKA TUNGGAL IKA DAN KONFLIK SOSIAL; (KHAZANAH MULTIKULTURAL INDONESIA DI ERA POST TRUTH)

Indonesia is one of the largest multicultural countries in the world, this can be seen from the sociocultural and geographical conditions of Indonesia that are so complex, diverse and broad. As a plural and heterogeneous country, Indonesia has the potential for multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious wealth, all of which are potentials to build a large multicultural nation "multicultural nation-state". This nation-state
 
 
 
 
 multicultural can be double charged; integration or conflict, which must be held together with full wisdom and nuances of tasamuh in the midst of society.
 
 As we understand together, the formation of the State of Indonesia on the basis of its country was formulated with a long and bloody struggle until it was proclaimed on August 17, 1945. The proclamation was also preceded by a long debate about the shape of the country - given the reality of Indonesia's plurality as a nation. as the foundation of the State, with the motto of Unity in Diversity.
 
 The effort for Indonesia to survive as a multicultural country continues to be carried out mainly by strengthening education (religion). Because education is believed to have a strategic role to build and restore the way of thinking and attitudes of students into a level that understands pluralism in society

Orang Muda Katolik: Jembatan Kasih Di Tengah Keragaman

Indonesia is a multicultural nation based on ethnic, religious and cultural. Keeping this multiculturalism a call for all people, including Young Catholics. In that context, it is true what the Catholic youth proclamated in the Asian Youth Day 7, 2017 in Yogyakarta. In this moment they promise to turn a violent world into a world of peace and a life of safety in diversity. Asian youth promise not to repeat the history of violence whether labeled religion, ethnicity or other labelitas. The promise is revealed in their endeavors to live the joy of the gospel in the diversity. This paper gives meaning to the necessity of viewing multiculturalism as a part of civilized life. My focus, I want to give socio-theological perspective as baseline notes as a framework for young Catholics in the struggle to live the joy of the gospel in the world diversity.

THE QUEST FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL IN ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

In Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare highlights the cultures of the East and the West. The play reveals the quest for cultural survival between the East and the West as a major factor that stirs cultural complexities. The unrighteous representation of the Eastern culture shows the complex nature of multiculturalism the canonical writers strove to represent in their writings. This study seeks to substantiate the challenges that confront cultural expressions in the multicultural atmosphere Shakespeare highlights in Antony and Cleopatra, as well as how the minority culture shapes this context of cultural plurality. Similarly, a comparative analysis of Cultural Studies, cultural history, cultural identity, cultural ‘contents,’ and the literary work Antony and Cleopatra will be the subject matter in this study. Moreover, the goal of this study is to examine how Shakespeare promotes Western culture through the adoringly and adorningly illustrated West with a blemished and contemptuous portrayal of the East in his play. Comparatively, we examine how Shakespeare evinces the triumvirs as the powerful three (Antony, Caesar and Lepidus) and, on the other hand, how he associates Cleopatra with the East.

Gendered Islamophobia in the Case of the Returning ISIS Women: A Canadian Narrative

In February 2019, the case of Shamima Begum, hit the headlines. Begum, one of the three East London girls who had left the UK for Syria in 2015, was located in a refugee camp in Syria. Tagged as an “ISIS bride,” Begum's case raised the profile of Muslim women who had voluntarily left their home countries to join the Islamic State and were now seeking to return. In this paper, I focus on the Canadian women returnees who were and, in some cases, remain wives of ISIS soldiers. I pay particular attention to how they are framed in the Canadian media and the audience response to their portrayals. Against a backdrop of the media's representation of these women, I examine the comments that audience members posted after a three-part series on the returning ISIS members was broadcast on the Global Television Network during the month of October 2018. Global TV is a 24/7 news channel that can be streamed online on various platforms. I contend that the construction of the returning wives and the responses the series elicited are reflective of the larger currents of racism and Islamophobia that circulate within Canadian society and that have become amplified since the inception of the War on Terror. However, they take on a distinct hue with respect to the framing of gendered agency and critically heighten the affective charge around the issue of returning ISIS fighters and the women who joined the movement. In this sense, the technology making online commenting possible has escalated the extent and intensity of Islamophobia. This article also seeks to demonstrate how Islamophobia is yoked to and animates an anti-government discourse. Thus, in contrast to Canada's projected national image as a benign, multicultural nation, the user-generated comments paint a picture of a white nation that is overrun with and taken advantage of by racialized minorities.

AN APPLICATION OF A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING (CRT) APPROACH TO DRAMA TEACHING BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM

The diversity of ethnicities and cultures characterizes the Indonesian nation as a multicultural nation. The peculiarities of each of these varieties can be found in the forms of social practice of social life. The values ​​that are upheld in every social practice of social life also underlie the development direction of national development sectors. Especially in the field of education, it is stated in the National Education System Law of 2003 to organize National Education which is rooted in the religious values ​​and national culture of Indonesia. The realization of the mandate of this law is stated that the content of the curriculum contains local potentials. These two mandates underlie curriculum principles and color educational practices to reflect the diversity existed in Indonesia. This research is entitled APPLICATION OF CULTURAL RESPONSIVE TEACHING (CRT) APPROACH TO DRAMA TEACHING: A Study Amidst the New Normal Conditions of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The approach was introduced by Geneva Gay (2011: 188-214) as an approach that emphasizes the importance of learning based on cultural backgrounds of students. Multicultural education is a concept that underlies this approach (Baker, 1996: 374). The research framework is the application of CRT approach to learning activities in Drama Course. This research used a qualitative descriptive approach. The results of this study resulted in several things discussed from the aspects of preparation, personal character, presentation, interaction between teachers and students and local story script products. It is hoped that this research will produce a learning framework that integrates elements of local culture for teaching drama. The results of this research will be published in scientific articles.

Pembelajaran Terintegrasi Budaya Lokal Melalui Tradisi Maccera Siwanua

Indonesia as a multicultural nation rich in various local wisdom, becomes the basis of the importance of local cultural integarasi in education in building the culture of life. This study presents a finding of creative learning potential through understanding the value contained as a form of cultural wealth in Alitta Village, Mattiro Bulu Subdistrict, Pinrang Regency. This study uses an ethnographic approach, which aims to explain and describe how the process and cultural values contained related to Maccera Siwanua. Alitta indigenous peoples are a group of people who have ancestral origins (hereditary) in a certain geographic region and have their own system of values, ideology, economy, politics, culture, social and region. This tradition is one of the products of local culture passed down through generations by ancestors who still exist and survive until the current era of globalization, in addition, cultural values are attached simultaneously at every stage of the ritual. Speech and deeds of leaders and ritual societies become the main focus to uncover these cultural values. Maccera Siwanua ritual in Alitta society, produces cultural values that can at least be used as a reference in pedidikan and living a better daily life, such as piety to The One True God, mutual respect, innate good heart, unity, and deliberation.

LATINO DESTINO: CREATING A MULTICULTURAL AMERICA

AbstractThe author contends that the United States has become a multicultural nation, and the variety of traditions “will be a defining characteristic of the next twenty‐five years. The Latino community in the United States will be at the forefront of this change.” Bordas says that her “article looks at the influence Latinos will have in guiding the transformation to a multicultural and equitable society. I refer to this as Latino Destino—the unique contribution Latinos will make in creating our inclusive future.” She describes four factors that will make this a reality, which in her words are (1) Latino Destino will cultivate a humanistic society that takes care of its people. (2) Latino Destino will celebrate an inclusive multicultural society. (3) Latino Destino will bring together our global community. (4) Latino Destino will prepare a new generation of leaders. A leadership lesson is described within each factor. “For instance, in factor 1, she says that “Latinos determine people's worth on how they treat others.” In factor 2, “Inclusive leadership integrates the values and preferences of many cultures in a respectful and productive manner.” In factor 3, “Being bilingual is a great asset in our multicultural world.”

Die Zukunft der Gruppenpsychotherapie und Gruppenanalyse

Summary The Future of Group Psychotherapy and Group Analysis Although in Hebrew we say “From the day of the destruction of the temple, prophecy was given to the fools”, in this article I try to foresee and predict possible developments in group psychotherapy and group analysis in the next ten years. The article focuses on the longterm consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s mind and behaviours, especially in the therapeutic field and specifically for online groups. The online revolution expands beyond the impact of the pandemic and impacts the sense of self as a decentered polymorphous phenomenon, which in turn affects group therapy. In addition, taking into consideration the world politics and social processes, including the rise of populistic political movements and narcissistic charismatic leaders, I assume that leading therapy groups will suffer from impinging and penetrating the boundaries of the group, affecting the relationship with the group analyst due to “failed dependency”. Adding the powerful social movements of “Me Too” and “Black Lives Matter”, the multicultural nature of almost all countries nowadays, and the waves of immigration that shook the world in the previous decade, group therapy cannot escape being affected by these processes, and the 4th basic assumption of Incohesion: Massification and Aggregation, would become ubiquitous in groups.

As cotas raciais na construção da democracia

Esse estudo expõe aos movimentos representativos atuantes contra as disparidades sociorraciais e educacionais, uma leitura das ações afirmativas como remédio de garantia da igualdade material. Aponta o caminhar do Estado Democrático de Direito rumo a uma nação participativa e multicultural, militando inclusões sociais positivas em cujo manifesto pelas diversidades rompem invisibilidades das minorias negras ao compartilhar espaços acadêmicos por meio das cotas raciais. Trata-se de artigo bibliográfico com análise descritiva respaldada na Constituição Federal e produções de Fernandes (2008a, 2008b, 2013, 2017) dialogadas com estudiosos da causa negra, para compreensão do impacto do racismo sobre os corpos negros e das proteções constitucionais contra grupos reacionários.

Broadening the Reach of International Simulations to Overcome Accessibility Barriers

World politics simulations are gaining popularity and becoming mainstream. With advanced technological tools, experimental learning brings together students from afar increasing the multicultural nature of meetings and practical learning. Progress in running simulations and pedagogical goal fulfillment still require the removal of accessibility barriers, to make our educational environment more equal, universally across the globe. This study addresses four barrier types, describes improvement in the legal setting over the years and points to still unmet challenges preventing an equitable learning experience for all students regardless of background, race, religion, or ability. Components from the Universal Design for Learning (UDL)—Action and Expression, Engagement, and Representation—serve as pedagogical guidelines, applied in the Syrian Civil War Simulation (SCWS) to illustrate how gradually progressing role play can overcome some if not all barriers. Some barriers are technical-procedural, so addressing them necessitates awareness and application of easily available modifications. Others are deeply embedded, making their removal harder and more costly. In conclusion, the study highlights practical ways to overcome barriers, emphasizing the role of networking as a way to identify problems, learn about available solutions, share the costs of implementing changes, and make simulation projects attractive to all students.

‘Because it’s 2015!’: Justin Trudeau’s Yoga Body, Masculinity, and Canadian Nation-Building

In 2015, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters he chose a gender-balanced cabinet “because it’s 2015,” a sentiment that resonated with Leftists and feminists. Trudeau showed he was a different kind of male politician through his yoga practice. Through candid yoga photographs, Trudeau represented himself as a sensitive new age guy who challenged hegemonic masculinity through wellness, playfulness, and a commitment to multiculturalism. Using discourse analysis, we examine visual, print, and social media texts that feature Trudeau’s connection to yoga, masculinity, and nation-building. We argue that Trudeau’s yoga body projects a “hybrid masculinity” (Bridges 2014; Demetriou 2001) that constructs Trudeau as a benevolent patriarch, which is mapped onto a fantasy of Canada as a multicultural nation with feelings.

Environmental justice in Colombia: a review of the constitutional jurisprudence protecting indigenous peoples

The Colombian State has ratified several international instruments to protect indigenous peoples: the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 1965, the Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of 1989 (ILO Convention 169), the Declaration of the United Nations on the rights of indigenous peoples in 2007. Additionally, there is a constitutional article on multiethnic and multicultural nation, norms and jurisprudence aimed at environmental protection in the context of Colombian indigenous peoples. In this paper, the main thematic nuclei of environmental justice that derive from the constitutional jurisprudence of indigenous peoples are presented, based on an analysis of sentences issued since 1997 by the Colombian constitutional court.

A novel method for redefining language ecology and endangerment in Nigeria – towards a geospatial solution

Being a multilingual and multicultural nation, Nigeria is blessed with over 525 languages (Blench, 2014) from four different language families. The sheer number of indigenous languages makes an interesting tapestry! Unfortunately, not much attention has been paid to the study of our indigenous languages, with all the abundant prospects. This paper is a work in progress and a recently funded research project by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) of Nigeria, to rescue language endangerment in Nigeria by redefining the ecology of languages through geospatial technologies; concentrating on those languages located in the southern part of Nigeria, and scalable to other regions of Nigeria and beyond. The main objective of the project is to implement a location-aware infrastructure or framework that functions proactively in real-time, for enhanced language ecology, and precise visualization of the language’s vitality status for each language spoken in the region under study. The project draws a multidisciplinary team consisting of linguists and language experts, computational scientists, and geographical information system (GIS) specialists, to examine our language ecology through practical fieldwork and integrate same into a geospatial framework for the purpose of revitalizing our indigenous languages and making them readily available. This research project is therefore significant as it will not only provide a cooperative solution for advancing our understanding of the spatial pattern that describes language ecology, but also provide an early appraisal of the degree of vitality and endangerment in relation to factors such as social and cultural changes. The immediate impact is the prompt revitalization of our indigenous languages and the development of an effective language policy to strengthen our local heritage.

Globalization as an instrument of rapprochement of national cultures: myths and reality

GLOBALIZATIONASANINSTRUMENTOFRAPPROCHEMENTOFNATIONALCULTURES:MYTHSANDREALITY The article is devoted to the study of the socio-philosophical concept of globalism and the problem of national cultures in modern society. The author explores the concept of “globality”, examines the processes of universalization and differentiation of national cultures; it is revealed that the multicultural nature of society in many countries is ignored, some of them do not recognize the enriching value of different cultures and cultural, ethnic and linguistic diversity; the article determines that it is impossible to deny cultural diversity, which is currently a fact of life of the modern “global village”. Special attention is paid to the problem of multiculturalism, it is established that this concept today is looking for new ways by which different cultures could achieve mutual understanding and recognition of each other.

Interconnection of polycultural and inclusive education on the example of the USA

The relevance of the research is due to the multicultural nature of the modern world, where all members of any society must have equal rights for high quality educational services, despite individual characteristics that may manifest themselves in race and gender, social status, and alternative development. Multicultural education, being a priority in the US educational policy, has stimulated the development of inclusive education in the country, thereby providing access to education for all citizens with disabilities. Thus, a comprehensive school acquired the status of the main institution for the socialization of students, regardless of their educational capabilities and needs. Consequently, the problem of the research is to identify the relationship between multicultural and inclusive education in the United States. The purpose of the research was to characterize the common features of multicultural and inclusive education on the example of the United States. In the course of the research, the following methods were used: analysis of domestic and foreign literature on the research problem, as well as methods of comparative analysis, generalization and systematization. The research results are the main features of multicultural and inclusive education in the United States have been analyzed, the main goals of multicultural and inclusive education in the United States have been correlated; the principles of multicultural education, which form the basis of inclusive education in the United States have been considered; the relationship of inclusive and multicultural education on the example of the United States has been substantiated. Key conclusions: the presented principles of multicultural education (the principle of variability, differentiation, exclusion of any kind of discrimination, humanistic orientation of the educational process) forms the basis for the organization of inclusive education in the United States. A comparative analysis of the goals of multicultural and inclusive education in the United States has shown their general focus on providing affordable and quality education to all members of society, regardless of identity.

A CRITICISM RELATED TO DISCUSSIONS ON CULTURAL INTEGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM

Thinking about the concepts of culture, identity and ethnic group takes place in different societies by way of universal principles in studies focused on immigration and integration. Recently, multiculturalism makes up the universal principles of studies focused on cultural integration. All multiculturalists emphasize understanding cultural and social differences and to live with them. However, a debate on the nature of multiculturalism is ongoing behind this lifeless title. Because this perspective sets forth deep questions for studies on immigration and integration. The perspective we will define as “hystorophobia” and “instrumentalist” form the basis of these problems. The aim of this article is to deepen and enliven the discussion on the nature of public studies taken into consideration with a focus on integration and immigration. Emphasis will be on the ahistorical and asociological aspects of migration, cultural integration focused studies taken into consideration within the framework of multiculturalism.

Reconceptualization of Multiculturalism with the Lens of Posthumanism

This study is to stress the fact out that multiculturalism has been based on humanism so far and that there would be the need for a new epistemological and ontological philosophy in the post-human era, which is developed at unprecedented speed. To this end, in this study, first, it discusses a philosophical perspective on which posthumanism is built as well as its justification. Second, it discusses how the nature of multiculturalism would change and what role it would play in the future from the perspective of posthumanism. These discussions would lead to open a forum for discussing how multiculturalism would overcome the limitations of humanism in the modern era, gradually tilting towards posthumanism, and transform into a new conceptual framework for ecological ethics and social justice.

MENEPIS PRASANGKA DAN DISKRIMINASI DALAM PERILAKU BERAGAMA UNTUK MASA DEPAN MULTIKULTURALISME DI INDONESIA

Indonesia is a multicultural nation that has a variety of ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity. This diversity makes its challenges in creating a harmonious society. This is because it can bring some people trapped prejudice and discrimination, especially in religion. The prejudice that leads to discrimination and acts of violence will make social conflicts more acute in the multidimensional crises that occur in Indonesia.This article aims to describe prejudice and discrimination behavior from an individual psychological perspective, sociological, and cultural background. Besides that, it was also explained the idea of how to prevent and overcome prejudice and discrimination in religious beliefs that occurred. Efforts to prevent prejudice and discriminatory behavior in religion can be done by increasing the value of the group that is prejudiced, opening communication, conditioning the environment to internalize social norms. The hope is that all citizens can live side by side and respect each other in a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere.