Word: pluralistic
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...pluralist society, the value we place on cultural identity sometimes clashes with the value we place on tolerance, as Hepps's letter highlights. Her recommendation, though, is simplistic and counterproductive. In a society that correctly teaches us that our commonalities as human beings are more important than our differences, children are bound to see their parents' condemnation of intermarriage as thinly-veiled racism rather than a legitimate attempt to protect the culture...
...True peace in Ireland can only happen in a pluralist society where people are judged for their human worth rather than for their religious or political beliefs," Hutchinson said...
...past, Greenberg has refused to discuss the presence of a God in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Last night, however, he discussed the change in his pluralist mentality...
...United States--another pluralist community--we all make a bargain with the government: We get to keep our individuality, our sense of ethnicity, our notions of self and culture, our religious beliefs (or lack thereof) and the like...
...regret this decision. Political scientists have long identified the importance of "cross-cutting cleavages" in keeping pluralist societies alive. The idea is that individuals will have more than one group affiliation they care about--so they won't end up fracturing into single autonomous groups with opposing interests. As long as a single religious group doesn't populate one economic stratum, for example, religion and class can't combine to create a single warring faction...