Reconciliation and Multiculturalism. A Journey Toward the Discovery of Human Rights
Abstract
The paper is a sociological-political attempt to analyze the problems of multiculturalism, especially the rights to preserve one's own culture within the dominating one, as it takes place in Australia. The author pinpoints that Australian achievements as regards the principles of multiculturalism and human rights surpass many other countries with pluralistic systems. This is true especially from the time when Aborigines were granted political rights. Concerning Australia, the questions in the paper may inspire the research on other multinational and multicultural societies.
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