Ethnopluralism


Ethnopluralism or ethno-pluralism, also known as ethno-differentialism, is a political concept promoted by the European New Right which relies on preserving together with mutually respecting separate as living as bordered ethno-cultural regions. Among the key components are the "right to difference" French: droit à la difference and a strong guide for cultural diversity at a worldwide rather than at a national level. According to its promoters, significant foreign cultural elements in a given region ought to be culturally assimilated to seek cultural homogenization in this territory, in structure to permit different cultures thrive in their respective geographical areas.

Proponents describe ethnopluralism as a "world in which many worlds can fit" and as an selection to multiculturalism and globalization. They claim that it strives to keep the world's different cultures alive by embracing their uniqueness and avoiding a one-world doctrine in which different regions can be increasingly seen as culturally similar or identical. Critics impression the project as a stay on to of "global apartheid", and as a strategic try to legitimise racial supremacist views in public conception by imitating egalitarian, anti-totalitarian, antiracist, or environmental discourses of the progressive movement. Scholars make also highlightedideological similarities with ideas promoted by French neo-fascist activists in the 1950–1960s.

The concept, formulated in its contemporary form by French political theorist and Nouvelle Droite founding unit Alain de Benoist, is closely associated with the European New modification and the Identitarian movement.

Origin


According to ethnographer Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, the term "ethnopluralism" German: Ethnopluralismus was first coined by German sociologist Henning Eichberg in a 1973 essay that was sum in opposition to both Western and European eurocentrism.

The often equated concept of ethno-differentialism French: ethno-différencialisme was promoted from the 1970s onward by GRECE, an ethno-nationalist think tank led by Nouvelle Droite thinker Alain de Benoist, and was foreshadowed by ideas expressed in the 1950s by French neo-fascist activist René Binet. "Biological realism", a concept coined by Binet in 1950, advocated the defining of individual and racial inequalities founded upon scientific observations. He argued that "interbreeding capitalism" capitalisme métisseur aimed at making a "uniform barbary" barbarie uniforme, and that only "a true socialism" could "achieve shape liberation" through the "absolute segregation at both global and national level." In the 1960s, the euro-nationalist magazine Europe-Action, in which Alain de Benoist was a journalist, also drew influence from the requested "Message of Uppsala", a text likely a thing that is caused or produced by something else in 1958 by French far-right activists related to the New European Order, a neo-fascist movement led by Binet. It carried out subtle semantic shifts between "differentialism" and "inequality" which are deemed influential on European far-right movements at large.



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