multicultural particularism

{{Short description|Belief that a common culture for all people is either undesirable or impossible}}

Multicultural particularism is the belief that a common culture for all people is either undesirable or impossible.{{Cite web|author=Asham bin Ahmad|title=Debunking Multiculturalism|date=August 22, 2006|url=http://www.ikim.gov.my/v5/print.php?grp=2&key=1096|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722124905/http://www.ikim.gov.my/v5/print.php?grp=2&key=1096 |archivedate=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead |accessdate=22 September 2018}} In discussions of multiculturalism, historian and educator Diane Ravitch draws a distinction between what she terms "pluralistic" and "particularistic" varieties and suggests that other writers often blur or ignore this distinction.

In a long essay about multiculturalism in American education, Ravitch praises the inclusiveness of multicultural pluralism while decrying what she sees as multiple flaws and failures of multicultural particularism.{{Cite journal|title= Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures |journal=The Key Reporter |volume=56 |number=3 |pages=337–354|date=1990|url=http://college.hmco.com/currentconflict/students/multicultural/ravitch_article/intro.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020925014251/http://college.hmco.com/currentconflict/students/multicultural/ravitch_article/intro.html |archivedate=25 September 2002 |url-status=dead}} Reprinted by Houghton-Mifflin.