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Mathieu Bock-Côté and Yascha Mounk: "What model for multi-ethnic France?"

2022-02-04T06:31:31.229Z


BIG INTERVIEW - The demographic and cultural upheaval linked to immigration will be the greatest challenge for Western societies in the 21st century. If the American academic Yascha Mounk and the Quebec sociologist Mathieu Bock-Côté share this observation, they differ on the model to adopt...


THE FIGARO MAGAZINE.

- The transformation of Western societies into multi-ethnic societies is at the heart of your book Yascha Mounk.

Who says multiethnic society, necessarily says multiculturalism?

Yascha MOUNK.-

The term “multicultural” means different things in different contexts.

Fellow citizens who come from different parts of the world bring with them different religious beliefs, different culinary cultures, different values, quite simply.

We have to admit that managing living together in a country like France, which is a multi-ethnic country, becomes more complicated.

Dictating beliefs, a lifestyle or an ideology to newcomers would then be the tyranny of the majority

Yascha Mounk

We are in a situation without historical precedent.

Indeed, we have created democracies marked by their ethnic and religious diversity, in which we try to treat all citizens as equals.

In this sense, it is a great experience, as was the French Revolution or the founding of the American Republic.

Mathieu BOCK-CÔTÉ:

- Firstly, immigration…

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Source: lefigaro

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