ABSTRACT
This chapter enhances the ethnographic and intellectual scope and strength of collective effort, contributing substantially to the complexity of an anthropological analysis of multiculturalism. It examines a major limitation of multiculturalism, specifically the implication that culturally homogeneous minority groups, rigidly bound, co-exist in an equally homogeneous majority society. Pardo's chapter shows how mutually beneficial and productive relationships between native people and immigrants develop in the absence of relevant conflict in terms of culture and value-systems, whereas the stances and actions of radicalized immigrant groups often engender conflict. Zhang Jijiao's chapter provides an interesting description of imbalanced competition among ethnic groups. While Canada is described as an example of relatively integrated multiculturalism, Wieviorka describes the US as an example of disintegrated multiculturalism. Martin Luther King's campaign for civil rights is misleadingly presents as the trigger of multicultural policies in the US.
