Representations Of Multiculturalism Research Articles

Cultivating Diversity: Multicultural Representation in Collection Development at Tumbuh 2 Elementary School, Yogyakarta

SD Tumbuh 2 prioritizes multiculturalism, necessitating the integration of multicultural values throughout its curriculum, school environment, and library resources. In terms of library services, the development of library collections is fundamental, necessitating the school's diligent engagement in collection development activities to ensure their proper curation and enhancement. Hence, it is imperative to address how multicultural values are infused into the collection development process within the library of SD Tumbuh 2. This research aims to explore the manifestation of multiculturalism values within the collection development practices at Tumbuh 2 Elementary School Library in Yogyakarta. Employing a qualitative method with a descriptive approach, the study focuses on the Tumbuh 2 Elementary School Library as the subject, examining how multiculturalism values are represented in its collection development practices. The research employs a combination of data collection techniques, including non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and documentation. Data analysis follows Miles and Huberman's model, comprising reduction, data display, and verification stages to ensure comprehensive examination and validation of findings.The findings of this study reveal that the collection development practices at Tumbuh 2 Elementary School in Yogyakarta effectively reflect multiculturalism values. These findings underscore the school's commitment to fostering an environment that aligns with its vision and mission, demonstrating a coherent approach to promoting diversity and inclusivity within its educational framework. The portrayal of multiculturalism values in the collection development practices at the library reflects an ethos of inclusivity, characterized by openness and a commitment to fostering dialogue. Furthermore, it embodies humanistic principles, tolerance, democratic ideals emphasizing justice, and egalitarianism, thereby promoting equality within the school community.

Front-desk workforce cultural diversity and its implications for service quality in the accommodation sector: a case from Australia

ObjetivoEl idioma y el dialecto, las costumbres y las actitudes de servicio son sólo algunas de las características que hacen que cada cultura sea única. En consecuencia, la presencia de personas de diferentes culturas durante un encuentro de servicio puede repercutir en la calidad del servicio, ya que lo que constituye una buena calidad de servicio se percibe de forma diferente en las distintas culturas. Como país con una sociedad multicultural, los inmigrantes culturalmente diversos de origen no angloparlante (NESB) desempeñan un papel cada vez más importante en el sector de la hostelería y el alojamiento en Australia. Dentro de este contexto regional, este estudio contribuye a una comprensión más sólida de la influencia de la diversidad cultural de la mano de obra en diferentes aspectos de la calidad del servicio de recepción en el sector del alojamiento.Diseño/metodología/enfoqueEn este estudio cualitativo se realizaron 31 entrevistas en profundidad semiestructuradas a huéspedes, personal de recepción y gerentes de apartamentos en Australia Occidental, seguidas de entrevistas de validación con cinco expertos en gestión de recursos humanos del sector de la hostelería.ConclusionesLos resultados de las entrevistas sugieren que la diversidad cultural del personal de los NESB afecta a varios aspectos de los servicios de recepción de los alojamientos australianos, como la calidad de la comunicación, la interacción entre el personal y los huéspedes y la satisfacción de éstos. Los hallazgos señalan que el personal de recepción de los NESB culturalmente diverso puede (1) enfrentarse a barreras de comunicación intercultural debido a los diferentes acentos extranjeros y a la presencia de jerga local, (2) mejorar la interacción huésped-personal y la experiencia general del huésped en caso de tener antecedentes culturales similares con los huéspedes, y (3) proporcionar representaciones auténticas del multiculturalismo en Australia.Originalidad/valorEl estudio arroja nueva luz sobre las cambiantes percepciones y expectativas de autenticidad de los turistas, especialmente en Australia, donde la diversidad cultural ha cobrado mayor protagonismo. Además, en el servicio de alojamiento australiano, muchos empleados de NESB que han aprendido inglés americano/británico tienen dificultades para conversar con personas con acento australiano, sobre todo cuando también está presente la jerga australiana.

The Unveiled City: Multicultural Representation of Tokyo by Hashtag Labeling on Instagram

Abstract The birth and progress of civilization are linked to the development of cities. This study investigates how people view and experience Tokyo, the populous megalopolis and major tourist hub. A digital art installation unveils a Tokyo that exists only through interaction. The authors reduce the city’s culturally dependent representation through a database using hashtags in 47 languages. The automated processing of the database finds trends in Tokyo’s representations on Instagram using Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), yielding results in the art installation like current semiotic readings of the city.

Editorial

‘Reality television’ is the product of twentieth-century technology culture that incorporates a wide range of media activities including talent shows, documentary series and celebrity shows. One of the frequently discussed issues in the current scholarship is the representation of multiculturalism in western ‘reality shows’, particularly of South Asian families and their lives. The current issue remains as a genuine attempt to capture, analyse and theorize a number of highly important categories of ‘reality television’ in South Asian scholarship.

Examining Multicultural Representation in Lepus Songket of Palembang

<p> </p><p> Sriwijaya in the 7<sup>th</sup> century well known as Svarnadwipa that means island of gold. The Richness of gold made the kingdom produce woven fabric with golden thread called, songket. </p><p> Lepus Songket is the ultimate songket in Palembang. Lepus has meaning covering , all the gold threads covered the whole fabrics. </p><p> This article explains about the multicultural representation of Lepus Palembang songket. The examination of multicultural that influenced Lepus Songket would be presented. Lepus history is interesting, since the origin of it came from royalty family. </p><p>The conclusion of this article suggest Lepus songket of Palembang is the precious multicultural legacy. The young generation should be the preserver of Lepus. </p>

The Representation of Multicultural Education in Film “Raya and The Last Dragon”

The film is one of the media that represents the multicultural concept. Representation in films can create a paradigm that indirectly influences the audience's mindset. Among various genres of film, film animation is one genre that can attract the attention of various levels of society of all ages. Animated films are easier to accept because they have a weak storyline and are full of moral messages. One of the public's animated films in great demand is "Raya and The Last Dragon." This film tells the story of life in a fantasy land called Kandra. A land where people from different tribes can live in harmony with guardian dragons. Therefore, this research was conducted to know what forms of representation of multiculturalism in the film "Raya and The Last Dragon." This research was conducted using the descriptive qualitative method. While the theory used in this study is the semiotic theory of John Fiske: the level of reality, representation, and ideology. The result of this research is discovering a form of representation of multiculturalism which is the basis of multicultural education.

Representation of Multiculturalism and Issues in V S Naipaul’s ‘The Middle Passage’

Representation of Multiculturalism and Issues in V S Naipaul’s ‘The Middle Passage’

Representation of Multiculturalism and Issues in V S Naipaul’s ‘The Middle Passage’

Representation of Multiculturalism and Issues in V S Naipaul’s ‘The Middle Passage’

REPRESENTASI MULTIKULTURALISME DALAM PRAKTIK SELEKSI KOLEKSI PERPUSTAKAAN SMA KOLESE GONZAGA JAKARTA

The value of multiculturalism needs to be applied in the school library to help school member to be able to foster a better tolerance. The school member at Gonzaga College High School who have a high diversity, this value is carried out through the practice of library collection selection. This study aims to identify the representation of multiculturalism in practice selecting collections Gonzaga College High School Library, Jakarta. The school library as a means of supporting teaching and learning activities in schools is also responsible for fostering the value of multiculturalism in students, instilling an attitude to respect diversity in language, ethnicity, and religion. This study uses a qualitative approach with ethnographic analysis methods. Data collection uses participant observation and interviews from December 2019 to April 2020, and document analysis. Determination of informants uses purposive sampling, with a total of 10 consisting of school administrators, library administrators, and students. The findings obtained indicate that the collection selection practice is carried out by referring to the school curriculum and subject-based from various disciplines. The selection tools used are book reviews from social media such as book review webinars, book title lists, and publisher catalogs, suggestions from subject teachers, school principals, and their representatives in the field of curriculum, vice principals of facilities and infrastructure, and lists of books borrowed by users. Decision-making in the practice of selection is carried out by deliberation between the head of the library and the principal based on the awareness of multicultural values on both parties, even though the decision is still held by the principal. Collection development is based on reflection and evaluation carried out by educator community as stated in Our Way Proceeding which is a guidebook in acting and deciding something. The conclusion shows that the representation of multiculturalism in the collection selection practice at the Gonzaga College High School Library applies egalitarian and democratic values. The suggestion that needs to be done is to increase regular communication between decision-makers and the head of the library.

Entanglements between gender equality and multiculturalism discourses: the case of Sweden

ABSTRACT Sweden has been a pioneer in the construction of comprehensive and progressive multicultural and gender models that have influenced multiple spheres in Sweden’s society for several years. Multiculturalism has been focused on diversity accommodation, while feminism has been concerned with the struggle to achieve gender equality. This has led to essential debates questioning how contemporary democracies can manage diversity while at the same time pursuing the commitment to gender equality. Our discourse analysis is based on the representations of multiculturalism in the last two policies launched by the Swedish Government: The Gender Equality Policy from 2016 and the Feminist Foreign Policy from 2019–2022. The results show that these policies embody the ideas of a ‘multiculturalism without culture’ model, sustained by a common ground in human rights, where diversity is legitimized without being homogenized. Moreover, both policies manifest different forms to apply intersectionality and emphasize the conception of ‘destructive masculinities.’ Finally, we found that the documents might reproduce a binary approach between men and women, reinforcing a heteronormative understanding of ensuring gender equality.

Culturally diverse expert teams have yet to bring comprehensive linguistic diversity to intergovernmental ecosystem assessments

Culturally diverse expert teams have yet to bring comprehensive linguistic diversity to intergovernmental ecosystem assessments

Berbingkai Kemajemukan Budaya, Bersukma Desakalapatra: Selidik Etnografi atas Tradisi Tengger

This research aims to reveal the representation of multiculturalism about the complexity of the Tengger tradition. This study used a qualitative approach to the design of ethnography. The data of this research are in the form of folkloristic expressions manifested in utterances or symbolic behavior. Sources of data in this study were native speakers of Tengger. Data were collected using observation and interviews. The data obtained were then analyzed through three stages: data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. The research findings show that multiculturalism can be represented in various Tengger tradition. Some of them are present in karo celebration performance that contains traditions of gantenan cecelukan, andon mangan, and nyandaran. Instead of these traditions, the tolerance value is also indicated in sayan tradition, such as sayan hajatan, sayan of farming, sayan of building a house, and sayan of building a place of worship. The multicultural Tengger community recognizes the concept of desakalapatra, a different custom in every Tengger region. However, by the existence of traditional support, these differences were able to be managed well. The Tengger people became more open-minded in understanding and accepting any differences between them through multiculturalism and tolerance of desakalapatra value. The solid religious tolerance in the Tengger tradition is also affected in bonding the harmony. As a result, Tengger people are always unity both culture and tradition, though they believe diversity subsistence around them.

Multiculturalism in Social Studies Teaching: A Meta-Synthesis Study

Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate the findings of studies investigating multiculturalism in social studies teaching in Turkey.Studies examining the concept of multiculturalism, which belongs to an important place in the social studies course, wereanalyzed, and the findings related to what was focused most, what was needed and the subjects that had never beeninvestigated before were presented.Design/Methodology/Approach: The meta-synthesis method, which is one of the qualitative methods based on interpretingand synthesizing the findings of the studies, carried out with a qualitative and mixed method investigating multiculturalism inthe field of social studies teaching. In the meta-synthesis method, researches on the same subject are interpreted from acritical point of view by creating themes or main templates. Within the scope of the “inclusion criteria” determined, 11 studiesexamining multiculturalism in social studies teaching were analysed.Findings: The findings showed that in order to describe the current situation, the great majority of the studies examined thedocuments, and the data collection and data analysis methods were similar due to the document analysis method. Studiesexamining multiculturalism in different units of the curriculum of social studies course show that the situations of addressingmulticulturalism in the program have varied over the years, and that there have been significant developments over time interms of the representation of multiculturalism in the context of learning domain. Studies conducted on social studiestextbooks show that the reflection of multiculturalism on books took place later than the curriculum. As a result, it is seen thatthe level of multiculturalism is still not sufficient.Conclusion: Instead of conducting descriptive studies that determine the extent to which multiculturalism is represented insocial studies documents, social studies researchers are suggested to carry out studies using different methods that createproducts for the creation of multicultural education environments that can be carried out with a social studies curriculum.

Media Coverage of Two Violent Events with Muslim Perpetrators in Australia and the Netherlands

This paper compares media coverage to violent events in Australia and the Netherlands: the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam in November 2004 and the “Sydney siege”, a hostage-taking crisis in Sydney in December 2014. Both events were associated with Muslim perpetrators. We analyse media coverage by three high-circulation newspapers in each country in the week after the events. Our focus is on the public representation of Muslims in the news media, as well as the broader representation of multiculturalism. We find significant differences between the public reactions in two countries. Media reporting was more nuanced in Australia than in The Netherlands, where more negative reporting on Muslims could be found.

Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean by Jason Herbeck

Reviewed by: Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean by Jason Herbeck Lucy Swanson Jason Herbeck, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean, Liverpool University Press, 2017, 340 pp. With Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean, Jason Herbeck offers an insightful and innovative contribution to discussions of identity formation in the literature of Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe. Herbeck's nuanced close readings of recent works by writers from the region and comparative approach to studying French Caribbean literature and cultures are two of the book's greatest strengths. They make Architextual Authenticity a compelling intervention into two complex questions: firstly, how can "authentic" Caribbean identities be constructed in light of the region's diasporic roots in the Middle Passage? Secondly, despite the absence of an original "French Caribbean culture," how do writers from the former French colonies craft an Antillean literary specificity that neither reproduces French metropolitan literature (with a bit of exotic couleur locale), nor idealizes lost African roots (as Césaire has been accused of in his theorization of négritude)? Herbeck explores these questions, as the book's title indicates, through an examination of the literary theme of architecture—studying works in which houses allegorize Caribbean identity construction—and through these works' architexture, the "meta-textual construction of texts" (10)—in this case, their references to and engagement with previous works of French Caribbean literature. In the introduction, Herbeck frames this approach in relation to the "Colonocene," through a discussion of francophone postcolonial theory—including a broad discussion of these issues by writers like Albert Memmi as [End Page 121] well as more specifically by the theorists of antillanité and créolité, and in light of recent scholarship on French Caribbean identity and narratological and formal aspects of postcolonial literature in French. The first chapter serves as an extension of the introduction. Through an exploration of the Haitian Gingerbread house, it lays out how architecture can serve as a lens for examining the construction of French Caribbean identity. Specifically, Herbeck analyzes writing that attempts to pinpoint the Haitian specificity of this architectural style that draws on European traditions (Victorian and French). One interesting moment is the discussion of the implications of the decline of "authentic" architecture in post-earthquake Haiti in light of the ongoing intervention of NGOs. Herbeck subsequently applies this exploration of literal structures to close readings of literary structures in short stories by Haitian writers Yanick Lahens and Evelyne Trouillot. This approach frames the close readings found in the second through fifth chapters of Architextual Authenticity, each of which studies a different writer. Chapter two focuses on Edouard Glissant's La Lézarde (1958), adding a case study of the Maison de la Source to the existing body of scholarship on the writer's landscapes and shedding new light on the way the author reflects on Martinican identity in the wake of the 1946 departmentalization of the French Antilles. In chapter three, Herbeck considers Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé's seminal Traversée de la mangrove (1989), and in particular the Propriété Alexis inhabited by Francis Sancher before his death. Herbeck's discussion of Condé's multiethnic and multicultural representation of Guadeloupe is particularly interesting where he discusses Condé's debate with créoliste Patrick Chamoiseau, and in his reading of Traversée's intertextual relationship with Haitian writer Jacques Stephen Alexis's Gouverneurs de la rosée (1944). The fourth chapter offers an extended discussion of the Maison des Flamboyants in Daniel Maximin's L'Île et une nuit (1995), arguing Condé's Traversée is a "latent intertext" (173) with Maximin's novel. Herbeck convincingly reads the porous structure of the Maison des Flamboyants—which initially helps it withstand the onslaught of a hurricane—as a metaphor for Caribbean identity construction as an open, flexible and ongoing process. It is, he writes, "necessary to consider the concept of resistance in L'Île as a vital process of negotiation rather than as unconditional opposition to or outright obstruction of external influences" (202). The fifth and final chapter returns to the context of post-earthquake Haiti evoked in the first chapter...

Bigger than ourselves: the Southgate narrative and the search for a sense of common purpose

The paper examines two ‘turns’ in English national sporting culture, ‘Beckhamisation’ and ‘Southgatism’, and their contribution to an ‘imagined community’ through processes of ‘banal nationalism’. It examines the critiques of various academic and media commentators to demonstrate the link between the trappings of sport (in this case football), and people’s understanding of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Music/songs, flags, language, multi-cultural representation, team ethos and espoused values, are not just signifiers, but have a pivotal part to play in representing, repressing and resisting particular forms of Englishness. The focus here is on those national sporting occasions that all too often have been associated with virulent forms of nationalism. We conclude that Southgatism holds out more hope for a progressive sporting patriotism than did its Beckhamite predecessor, but that this has yet to be tested in the febrile cauldron (the ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants and Brexit) currently forging English national identity.

Social representations of Britishness among British South Asian gay men

ABSTRACT Nationhood can be conceptualised in many different ways and these conceptualisations determine the level of access that ethnic minorities have to a national identity. This study focuses on social representations of Britishness among British South Asian gay men and their impact for constructing and managing national, ethnic and sexual identities. Fifteen individuals were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule and the data were analysed using thematic analysis and social representations theory. The analysis yielded three themes focusing on the racial representation of Britishness, which emphasised the centrality of race and was perceived to be exclusionary; the multicultural representation, which facilitated both ethnic and British national identification but did not address homophobia in the ethnic ingroup; and the civic/ instrumental representation, which facilitated a sense of belonging in spite of their multiple identities. A civic/ instrumental representation of Britishness appears to be inclusive and may have far-reaching social and psychological benefits.

Dialogue of Cultures in the Creative Work by Czeslaw Milosz

The aticle deals with the peculiarity of the literary representation of multiculturalism and the borderland in creative work by Czesław Miłosz. The factors which influenced the development of Milosz’s poetry are revealed, the life of the author in Wilno in the inter-war period is considered, and the romantic tradition of Adam Mizkiewicz is outlined. The cultural and political events which were reflected in the legacy of Miłosz are examined; the period of emigration and the homecoming are studied. The cultural and national specificity of the borderland, which affected the creative writing of Miłosz, is depicted, and distinct ethnic and cultural models, images and symbols in the author’s ideological and artistic inquiries are analyzed.

Representations of multiculturalism in Japanese elementary EFL textbooks: A critical analysis

Recent reforms to Foreign Language Activities policies in Japan have highlighted the importance of facilitating multilingualism and multiculturalism in global contexts. However, as this analysis finds, some of the most recent textbooks (2018-2020) for Foreign Language Activities classes in Japan are English Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks that fail to provide teachers and students with meaningful discussions on society, language, or culture. This critical discourse analysis (CDA) finds that four elementary school textbooks currently being used by boards of education throughout Japan fail to meet the Ministry of Education’s goals for developing multilingualism and multiculturalism in Japanese elementary schools. Working in an anti-racist lens, this paper identifies problematic areas within the textbooks Let’s Try 1, Let’s Try, We Can 1, and We Can 2 (MEXT, 2018) and discusses the necessity of an attitudinal shift from linguistic hegemony to the implementation of anti-bias frameworks in language and culture education in Japan.

Мультикультурний компонент та його мовне вираження в творчості Ленгстона Г’юза

Nowadays, the problem of the representation of multiculturalism in modern poetry needs special consideration. Our research is devoted to the investigation of the specific features of the multicultural component in the poetry of Langston Hughes. The main tasks of the paper are to investigate such notions, as «multiculturalism», «realia», «national identity» and «blues»; and to analyze the linguistic and cultural specificity of Hughes’ poetry. Multiculturalism is a term that came into usage after the idea of a “melting pot». Such scholars as Glazer, Hollinger, and Taylor have been investigating this term. Multicultutralism is the way in which different authors maintain their identity through their work while educating others on their cultural ideas. Multicultural literature is oriented around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, etc. Multicultural American literature of the 20th century resonates with the hopes and fears of the whole of American history and reflects the rich complexity and variety of the American experience. James Mercer Langston Hughes, an American writer who was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and made the African American experience the subject of his works. His writings ranged from poetry and plays to novels and newspaper columns. We would like to pay special attention to Langston Hughes’ poetry. «The Negro Speaks of Rivers» was the first poem published in Langston Hughes’s long writing career. The poem first appeared in the magazine Crisis in June of 1921 and was subsequently published in Hughes’s first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, in 1926, written when he was only 19. «The Negro Speaks of Rivers» as well as the rest of his works treats themes Hughes explored all his life: the experiences of African Americans in history, black identity and pride. Multiculturalism is connected with the notion of realia. It is a linguistic phenomenon, which refers to the culture-specific vocabulary. The works of such well-known scientists, as S. Vlahov, S. Florin, I. Kashkin, A. Fedorov have been central in the study of this issue. The key factor in defining any phenomenon as realia is national referring to the object of a certain country, nation, or social community. National identity is not an inborn trait. It is essentially socially constructed. A person's national identity results from the presence of elements from the «common points» in people's daily lives: national symbols, colors, nation's history, blood ties, and so on. We can find all these aspects (geographical realia, proper names, and many others) in the work of Langston Hughes. While analysing the poems of Langston Hughes we discover that his language is closely connected with the culture. Thus, the idea of multicultural writing is that racial and ethnic minority voices are a crucial element in United States literary history and culture