Özet:

Multiculturalism has been a controversial issue for years. Numerous scholars have discussed on it, examined societies with different cultural communities, and come up with two main different arguments. One of such arguments alleges that the idea of multiculturalism is a threat for countries, especially the countries that follow liberal aspect, thus it is not desirable. The other argument alleges that multicultural accommodation has merits to establish harmony especially for countries with different communities, separated cultures so on. In this paper, we aim to discuss briefly the idea of multiculturalism. After clarifying what multicultural accommodation is, we invoke Kymlicka’s, one of the dominant multiculturalism theorists and advocates, thoughts, and then we appeal the arguments against them. While doing this, Brian Barry’s, a political philosopher who was one of the solid opponents of multiculturalism, is our main objector. We focus mainly on the egalitarian critics of multiculturalism on the one hand and try to reveal some problems for cultural rights on the other. The cases, also the problems, in the paper is taken from western countries but they all have merit to understand all multicultural conflicts and their remedies. Therefore, what we hope is to give possible perspectives for Turkey that has begun to face the difficulties of multiculturalism because of millions of refuges.

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