ABSTRACT
Liberal defenders of cultural pluralism, such as Taylor, Walzer, Kymlicka and Requejo, maintain that cultural membership is important to provide the individual with a context of meaningful choice. According to Taylor, individuals identify themselves by their group membership and relations. Authentic groups should be protected if their existence is in danger. Their capacity to survive should be guaranteed by a politics of difference which is imagined to be permanent, in order to guarantee the preservation of the authentic groups. In the modern world, therefore, recognition is the essential condition of the existence of identity.1
