Table 9: Diversity Paradigms
Paradigm | Characteristics | Examples |
Diversity | Individuals and groups equal and protected by same rights, no formal recognition of majority or minorities | US, Sweden, Australia, India, English Canada |
Unitary | No official ethnocultural differentiation in public life | France, Japan, Russia |
Multi-Polarity | Societies officially constituted of groups and subgroups | Malaysia, Bolivia, Belgium, Switzerland, Northern Ireland, Canada |
Layered Duality | Relationship between a) ethnocultural minorities and recent immigrants, and b) an ethnocultural (founding) majority, that is a minority within a majority | Quebec |