Cultural Pluralism and the Limits of Diversity

Abstract

Almost every modern society includes groups whose ways of life are different from that of the mainstream society. The society wishes, and is right to wish, to preserve its way of life. However, that is also true of the constituent groups. This raises the question as to how the wider society should respond to their desire to preserve their ways of life and what it is to be done when the latter offend against its deeply held values. This article addresses that question.