Multiculturalism
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MULTICULTURALISM The multiculturalism is the coexistence of several cultures in a same territorial and national space. This is very common in our time, because thanks to the technological advances, to the development of the communications and the interconnection of different parts from the world, all the societies can receive information from others. At the same time, the growth of the migrations and the legal crossing of the borders collaborates with the mixture of cultures and societies. One of the main characteristics of the multiculturalism is that it tends to combine elements of diverse cultures in a new cultural expression that is different and novel. Included in this sense, the multiculturalism is highly equalizer since representations are left of sides discriminatory that generally are brought about by fear or ignorance to the other. At the same time, the multiculturalism admits the existence of all the cultures and it doesn’t apostatize of any since in this aspect all of them can contribute of equal way in the generation of a new cultural expression. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of the multiculturalism also is highly criticized. One of the main things that are used in his con is the idea that so that exists the multiculturalism the cultural identities must stop existing of isolated way and therefore great part of them loses its essence, which makes unique and differentiable in the world of the cultures of the planet. In addition, it is normal that the protests to the multiculturalism maintain that, generally, such phenomenon does not imply a real integration of all the cultures if not a dominion more or less forbidden of the strongest cultures by on weakest. As it was said, the multiculturalism is an extremely typical phenomenon of aim of century XX and principles of the 21st century. This has to do with a process of majors reaches that are known like globalisation and that is characterized mainly by the establishment of bows between all the