ABSTRACT
Some of the most difficult social problems facing modern multicultural societies arise out of the demand of tolerance. This problem becomes apparent when we discuss liberal values such as individual autonomy and equality in relation to the question of the degree to which modern liberal society should support cultural diversity and to what degree it should require cultural integration. For, whilst on the one hand the requirement for pluralism and tolerance demands that a liberal society allows and even encourages cultural diversity and different ways of living, on the other clear moral conflicts arise when cultural beliefs and traditions themselves turn out to be the enemies of autonomy and equality.
