Multi-Cultural Values and Borders

• Authors: Basia Nikiforova

Title variants

LT

Daugiakultūrės vertybės ir ribos

Abstracts

EN

The presumption of this paper is the view of multi-culturalism as a concept grounded on an assumption, rather than data, and legitimized by proclamation, rather than legislation. Multi-culturalism as a socio-political construction is not only "a multi-cultural and multi-religious mosaic", but it has its own values. The new borders inside the European Union (EU) are non-territorial, which confirms the new paradigm about the weakening factor of territorial belonging as such. Nowadays, values become a more and more powerful source of demarcation. The aim of this article is to challenge the problem and its consequences for the identity and perception of values in the new European situation, in which borders are merely symbolic. Multi-culturalism is the revalorization of ethnocentric tradition and the creation of post-materialist values such as individual self-expression, personal transformation, openness and solidarity to others, gender and racial equality, greater tolerance for an ethnic, cultural and religious diversity

LT

Daugiakultūriškumas apžvelgiamas kaip konceptas, labiau grindžiamas prielaidomis, o ne žiniomis; įteisinamas diskursu, o ne teise. Daugiakultūriškumas kaip socio-politinis konstruktas nėra vien tik daugiakultūrė ir daugiareligė mozaika - jam būdingos savarankiškos vertybės. Naujos sienos Europos Sąjungoje (ES) yra neteritorinės, jos įtvirtina naują paradigmą, pagrįstą konkretaus teritorinio veiksnio susilpnėjimu. Mūsų dienomis vertybės tampa vis svarbesniu demarkacijos šaltiniu. Šio straipsnio tikslas - iškelti daugiakultūriškumo problemą ir jo įtaką tapatumui bei vertybių suvokimui naujoje Europos situacijoje, kai sienos tėra simbolinės. Daugiakultūriškumas - tai etnocentrinės tradicijos perkainojimas ir kūrimas tokių post-materialistinių vertybių, kaip individuali saviraiška, asmeninė transformacija, atvirumas ir solidarumas, lytinė ir rasinė lygybė, didesnė tolerancija etniniam, kultūriniam ir religiniam skirtingumui.

Keywords

EN

multi-culturalism; multi-cultural polices; multi-cultural values; religious borders; religious pluralism

LT

daugiakultūriškumas; daugiakultūrės strategijos; daugiakultūrės vertybės; religinės ribos; religinis pliuralizmas

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Limes. Cultural Regionalistics
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 26-38

Contributors

author

Basia Nikiforova

• Department of Ethics, Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art, Saltoniškių g. 58, LT-08105 Vilnius, Lithuania

References

• Beck, U.; Beck-Gernsheim, E. 2002.Individualization. London: Sage Publications.
• Ceplak, M. M. 2006. "Values of Young People in Slovenia: "The Search for Personal Security",Young14(4): 291-308.
• Deth van, J. W.; Scarbrough, E. 1998a. "The Concept of Values", in J. W. van Deth, E. Scarbrough (Eds.).The Impact of Values, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 21-48.
• Deth van, J. W.; Scarbrough, E. 1998b. "Perspectives on Value Change", in J. W. van Deth, E. Scarbrough (Eds.).The Impact of Values, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 527-540.
• Dyczewski, L. 2002. "Values and Polish Cultural Identity", in L. Dyczewski (Ed.).Values in the Polish Cultural Tradition, Polish Philosophical Studies. Publications of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. Available from Internet:[Last access: 12.03.2009].http://www.crvp.org/book/Series04/IVA-19/chapter_i.htm
• Flanagan, S. C.; Lee, A.-R. 2003. "The New Politics, Culture Wars, and the Authoritarian-Libertarian Value Change in Advanced Industrial",Comparative Political Studies36(3): 235-270
• Fornäs, J. 1995.Cultural Theory and Late Modernity. London: Sage Publications.
• Gutmann, A. 2003.Identity in Democracy. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Hannerz, U. 1990. "Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture",Theory, Culture & Society7: 237-251.
• Helve, H. 1999. "Multiculturalism and Values of Young People",Diskus. Internet Journal of Religion5. Available from Internet:[Last access: 12.01.2009].http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/diskus
• Helve, H. 2006. "Social Changes and Multicultural Values of Young People", in C. Leccardi, E. Ruspini (Eds.).A New Youth? Young People, Generations and Family Life. Hampshire: Ashgate, 103-122.
• Helve, H. 1998. "Unification and Marginalisation of Young People", inUnification and Marginalisation of Young People. Helsinki: Hakapaino Oy.
• Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World. 2004. Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Available from Internet:http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2004
• Inglehart, R. 2000. "Globalization and Postmodern Values",Washington Quarterly23(1): 215-228.
• Inglehart, R. 1997.Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, New Jersay: Princeton University Press.
• Jagodzinski, W.; Dobbelaere, K. 1998. "Religious and Ethical Pluralism", in J. W. van Deth, E. Scarbrough (Eds.).The Impact of Values, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 218-249.
• Juknevičius, S. 2005. "The Religiosity and Morality of Lithuanians in a European Context", in S. Juknevičius (Ed.).Post-communist Lithuania: Culture in Transition. Vilnius: Culture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute, 58-86.
• Landsbergis, V. 2008. "Europos tapatybės krizė moraliniu ir politiniu požiūriu",SOTER: Journal of Religious Science25(53): 145-156.
• Lappalainen, S. 2006. "Liberal Multiculturalism and National Pedagogy in a Finnish Preschool Context: Inclusion or Nation-Making?",Pedagogy, Culture & Society14 (1): 99-112.
• Lewowicki, T. (Ed.). 2000.Edukacja międzykulturowaw Polsce i na świecie. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.
• Liubinienė, V. 2002. "Vertybių kaita Baltijos šalyse europinės integracijos kontekste",Sociologija: Mintis ir veiksmas2(9): 50-60.
• Matinheikki-Kokko, K.; Pitkänen, P. 2002. "Immigrant Policies and the Education of Immigrants in Finland", in P. Pitkänen, D. Kalekhin-Fishman, G. K. Verma (Eds.).Education and Immigration: Settlement Policies and Current Challenges. London: Routledge Falmer International Comparative Studies in Education, 48-73.
• Munck de, V. C. 2007. "First, Second and Finally Third Order Understandings of Lithuanian National Identity: An Anthropological Approach",Sociologija: Mintis ir veiksmas1(19): 51-73.
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. 2002. "Europietiškumo problema diskusijose apie lietuvišką nacionalinį identitetą",Sociologija: Mintis ir veiksmas2(9): 61-80.
• Skeggs, B. 2004. "Exchange, Value and Affect: Bourdieu and "the Self",Sociological Review52 (2): 75-95.
• Vertovec, S.; Wessendorf, S. 2004.Migration and Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Diversity in Europe: An Overview of Issues and Trends. Netherlands: IMISCOE Publications.

Identifiers

DOI

10.3846/2029-0187.2009.1.26-38