ABSTRACT
Management strategies for confronting cultural diversity are grouped into three categories: syncretic amalgamation, pluralistic accommodation, and group domination. In order to bring some degree of conceptual order to the considerable variety of means employed for the management of cultural diversity, this chapter aims to develop a general typology of such strategies. The cross-classification of different regime-types with various general management strategies generates a typology consisting of nine distinct approaches or regime-strategies for the management of cultural diversity. The general strategy of syncretic amalgamation represents an attempt to dilute or eradicate existing cultural identities through the creation of completely new bonds or cases of collective solidarity. The rulers of the political system seek to provide adequate procedures for the resolution or adjustment of inter-group conflicts and the accommodation of divergent group interests rather than government-sponsored programs for the transformation or standardization of cultural values.
