Liberal Multiculturalism: A Critical Attitude

In recent decades, the liberal homogeneous pattern that is clearly manifested in modern states has come under a serious criticism, because this pattern ignores ethnic, racial, linguistic, religious, cultural diversity, and minority ties to particular groups. Direct consequence of this social policy is that racial and cultural conflicts not only unresolved, rather, have been developing and deepening. Political thinkers have raised the pattern of "multiculturalism" to resolve or reduce the current problems of multicultural and multi-ethnic phenomenon. In this sense, the liberal homogeneous pattern can be equipped to a potential egalitarian force for the usage of disadvantaged groups; because all citizens share equally in rights and duties of citizenship. Some liberal theorists have proposed some patterns of liberal multiculturalism against the liberal homogeneous pattern. In this regard, we can note the thinkers like Robert E. Godin, Will Kymlicka and Marion I. Young. The main question of this paper is whether the patterns of liberal multiculturalism have ability to overcome the adverse consequences of the application of the liberal homogeneous pattern? In response, the claim is that the multiculturalism, despite the diversity and the extend of the proposed patterns, does not have ability to overcome the adverse consequences of the application of the liberal homogeneous pattern and respond to the issue of individual simultaneous allegiance in different levels to different social groups and status.