1st Edition
Celebrating Diversity Coexisting in a Multicultural Society
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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Celebrating Diversity: Coexisting in a Multicultural Society, offers pragmatic ways to replace conflictive behaviors between diverse peoples with coexistence alternatives. Coexistence-partnership values and skills help us to outgrow ways of the past--competition, suspicion, manipulation, isolation, victimization. These skills enhance our own lives as well as those of future generations. In... Read more
Contents Introduction
- Chapter 1. Preparing for Life in a Pluralist World
- Introduction
- Purpose of This Book
- Focus of the Book’s Contents
- Chapter 2. Three Patterns of Establishment-Minority Relations
- Four Causes of Conflict
- Asymmetric Power Arrangements
- Relating to the Strangers in Our Midst
- Tolerance and Integration Are Not Enough
- Chapter 3. Coexistence
- Some Philosophic-Historical Developments
- Recognizing a New Paradigm
- Some Coexistence Parameters
- Coexistence-Prompting Structures and Strategies
- Chapter 4. Creating Community Readiness for Coexistence
- Working on Our Own Feelings
- The Idea of Social Action
- Two Ways for Citizens to Take Action
- Professional Ways to Take Action
- Implications
- Chapter 5. Specific Efforts for Achieving Coexistence
- Goal Implementation in a Pluralist Society
- Educational Efforts for Coexistence
- Community-Wide Efforts for Coexistence
- Three Essential Processes
- Chapter 6. Coexistence Efforts Around the World
- The Challenge of Innovating
- World-Wide Examples of Coexistence
- Implications
- Chapter 7. From Doubts to Positive Findings
- Good Intentions Are Not Enough
- A Desired Mind-Set
- Helpful Research Findings
- Suggestions for Further Research
- Some Basic Findings
- Chapter 8. Implications
- A Review of Establishment-Minority Relations
- Participation and Coexistence
- A Final Note
- Index
- References
Biography
Benyamin Chetkow-Yanoov
