Abstract

Multiculturalism is a term used to describe a person's view of the variety of life in the world, or cultural policies that emphasize the acceptance of diversity and various kinds of cultures that exist in people's lives regarding values, systems, cultures, habits, and their politics. Before the emergence of multiculturalism, monoculturalism and assimilation that have become the norm in the nation-state paradigm since the early 19th century. Monoculturalism requires a normative cultural unity. Meanwhile, assimilation is the emergence of a desire to unite between two or more different cultures by reducing differences. thus creating a new culture. Multiculturalism has become an official policy in English - speaking countries, starting in Africa in 1999. This policy was later adopted by most members of the European Union, as an official policy, and as a social consensus among elites. But in recent years, a number of European countries, especially Britain and France, have begun to change their policies towards a policy of multiculturalism. The policy change also began to be the subject of debate in the United Kingdom and Germany, and several other countriesMulticulturalism.