Glossary
The EMN Glossary – as one of the key products of the EMN - improves comparability by enabling a common understanding and use of terms and definitions relating to asylum and migration. The Glossary draws on a variety of sources, but primarily on the legislation of the EU asylum and immigration acquis, and makes terms available in the majority of EU Member State languages.
The online version is regularly updated and available in various languages.
- BG: културно многообразие
- CZ: kulturní diverzita
- DE: kulturelle Vielfalt
- EE: kultuuriline mitmekesisus
- EN: cultural diversity
- ES: diversidad cultural
- FI: kulttuurinen moninaisuus / diversitetti
- FR: diversité culturelle
- GA: ilchineálacht chultúrtha
- GR: πολιτιστική ποικιλομορφία
- HU: kulturális sokféleség
- IT: diversità culturale
- LT: kultūrų įvairovė
- LV: kultūras daudzveidība
- MT: Diversità kulturali
- NL: culturele diversiteit
- NO: kulturelt mangfold (b) / kulturelt mangfald (n)
- PL: różnorodność kulturowa
- PT: diversidade cultural
- RO: diversitate culturală
- SE: kulturell mångfald
- SK: kultúrna rozmanitosť / kultúrna diverzita
- SL: kulturna raznolikost
The diversity of forms of culture in a society composed of groups of people from many different cultural backgrounds.
2. On 18 December 2006, the European Community ratified the UNESCO Convention. Preserving and promoting cultural diversity are among the Community’s founding principles: they are enshrined in the Treaty, under Art. 151, and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, under Art. 22.3.
- BG: културен плурализъм
- CZ: kulturní pluralismus
- DE: kultureller Pluralismus
- EE: kultuuride paljusus
- EN: cultural pluralism
- ES: pluralismo cultural
- FI: kulttuurinen monimuotoisuus / pluralismi
- FR: pluralisme culturel
- GA: iolrachas cultúrtha
- GR: πολιτιστικός πλουραλισμός
- HU: kulturális sokszínűség
- IT: pluralismo culturale
- LT: kultūrinis pliuralizmas
- LV: kultūras plurālisms
- MT: Pluraliżmu kulturali
- NL: multiculturalisme
- NO: kulturell pluralisme
- PL: pluralizm kulturowy
- PT: pluralismo cultural
- RO: pluralism cultural / multiculturalitate
- SE: kulturell mångfald
- SK: kultúrny pluralizmus
- SL: kulturni pluralizem
A policy aimed at the ensuring of harmonious interaction among people and groups with plural, varied and dynamic cultural identities as well as their willingness to live together.
2. See also the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Expressions, 2005.
- BG: мултикултурализъм
- CZ: multikulturalismus
- DE: Multikulturalismus
- EE: multikultuursus
- EN: multiculturalism
- ES: multiculturalismo
- FI: monikulttuurisuus
- FR: multiculturalisme
- GA: ilchultúrthacht
- HU: multikulturalizmus
- IT: multiculturalismo
- LT: daugiakultūriškumas
- LV: multikulturālisms
- MT: Sħubija għall-Mobbilità
- NL: multiculturalisme
- NO: multikulturalisme
- PL: wielokulturowość
- RO: multiculturalism
- SE: multikulturalism
- SK: multikulturalizmus
- SL: multikulturalizem
A policy that endorses the principle of cultural diversity and supports the right of different cultural and ethnic groups to retain distinctive cultural identities ensuring their equitable access to society, encompassing constitutional principles and commonly shared values prevailing in the society.
2. There is no universally accepted definition of multiculturalism, multiculturalism can refer to different concepts: demographic facts, philosophical or political ideas and values.
3. Multiculturalism emphasises cultural differences and different cultures existing next to each other without necessarily much contact or participative interaction.
4. The model of multiculturalism has often been criticised on different grounds. Critics of multiculturalism question the ideal of the maintenance of distinct ethnic cultures within a state; others argue that policies of multiculturalism have failed to create inclusion of different cultures within society, but instead have divided society by legitimising segregated separate communities that have isolated themselves and accentuated their specificity.