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Centrality: Backers

Intellectuals Dept: Interculturalism is being branded as a new model for integration and a solution to some of the anti-immigrant backlash that has accompanied the debate in Quebec over the accommodation of minorities, according to CTV. Its backers say it can also help multiculturalism weather some of the attacks it has suffered recently and mONTREAL — Amid increasingly strident criticisms of multiculturalism, both in Canada and abroad, a group of Quebec intellectuals is proposing an alternative that could save an idea that has become part of the national fabric. Interculturalism takes for granted the centrality of francophone culture. From there it works to integrate other minorities into a common public culture, all while respecting their diversity. As reported in the news.
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