Global citizenship with TorbjØrn (8.3.2011)

Comparative education: Multiculturalism and Open society

Anke Jacobs

Laura Szombathelyi

Marcello Pera :

Marcello Pera tried to incestigate the problem of multiculturalism. Their for he used 4 resorces to explained the problem and to find a good solution fot it.

The first was Derrida’s view: Deconstructing, decontstructivism

This part of the article is about conditionally and unconditionally hospitality. conditional hospitality means we should intagrate foreign in our culture, but this means that we make them no longer foreigner.

Unconditonally hospitality ont he other hand means that we should abandon our current policies of integration and adopt instead a programme whose task is the realization of „rainbow societies” This what’s Derrida believes.

Second was Taylor’s view.

This is about survival pronciple which is mean the survival of a culture is a good in itself and societies must be active in defending the rights of minority communities. He also agress that cultures can be compared and evaluated and this not all culture is equal.

Marcello says „Trough we allow that personal identity depends on a sense of belonging to a culture, this does not imply that the culture in question must necessarity be the one in wich individuals were born.

He also agress that we shoul have respect for dying communities but that not mean we have to put them in sort of protected social zoo.

The third view is the liberalism.

Liberalism has 3 principals:

1. Multiple divisions: individuals, and individuals alone, have natural rights.

2. Neutrality of the state: are free to pursue their own ideas of a good life.

3. The compassibility of all values: all values are composibble, that is not in conflict int he public sphere.

Marcello does not beleive is that work because this is where that public and the private come into conflict.

ð in the private sphere you can do whatever you wants but not int he public sphere.

The last view is Popper’s.

He answer to the question „how can we construct a societ which respects individual freedom as much as possible without at the same time leading to its own destruction?” Is the method of dialogue.

He says the Open society is a hard nd difficult society where commitment to dialogue is fundamental and only those who really want to engage in it may become citizens.

This requires respect from everyone, Not only the citizen of a country should except the imigrants. The imigrants should learn values and traditions of the host country.

Marcello beleives that Popper’s view is the most fuithful one, because he claims that the principal of commitment to dialogue encorugaes traditions to demonstrate their merits.