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CULTURAL PLURALISM
• Cultural pluralism is a term used when
smaller groups within a larger society
maintain their unique cultural identities, and
their values and practices are accepted by the
wider dominant culture provided they are
consistent with the laws and values of the
wider society
 Horace kallen

Horace Meyer Kallen (August 11,

1882 – February 16, 1974) was a
Polish-born American
philosopher who supported
pluralism and Zionism.

• Democracy Versus the

Melting-Pot, 1915
• Cultural Pluralism and the
American Idea, 1956.
HOMOGENEOUS AND
HETEROGENEOUS SOCEITIES
• Heterogeneous society mean such a society
which consists of different kinds of people
from various reason of the world-which is
basically a society that is ethnically
heterogeneous.
• Homogeneous society a society where most
of the people share the same type of cultures
values, language, ethnicity and religious
system.
DIFFERENT THEORIES TRY TO EXPLAIN
HOW IMMIGRANTS WERE ABSORBED INTO
AMERICAN SOCIETY
 United States

• Melting pot

a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous

society becoming more homogeneous, the
different elements "melting together" with a
common culture or vice versa.
 United States

for a homogeneous society becoming more

heterogeneous through the influx of foreign
elements with different cultural backgrounds,
possessing the potential to create disharmony
within the previous culture.
 United states

• Salad bowl

suggests that the integration of the many

different cultures of United States residents
combine like a salad, as opposed to the more
traditional notion of a cultural melting pot.
 United States

• Cultural Mosaic

is the mix of ethnic groups, languages, and

cultures that coexist within society.The idea of a
cultural mosaic is intended to suggest a form of
multiculturalism, different from other systems
such as the melting pot.
 United States

• Kaleidoscope

This study proposes the metaphor of culture

as“kaleidoscope” as a lens for understanding
the complexculture of global teams and
explores cultural tensionscharacterizing
intercultural collaboration in virtual work
arrangements.
PHILIPPINE CULTURE
HETEROGENOUS OR HOMOGENEOUS?
 Philippine culture

• The culture of the Philippines is a combination

of cultures of the East and West. Filipino
identity was created primarily as a result of
pre-colonial cultures, colonial influences and
foreign traders intermixing and gradually
evolving together.
 Philippine Culture

• Every nation has its own identity and some

are even part of a larger empire outside of
what is now the Philippines.
 Philippine Society

• Philippine society is a unique blend of

diversity and homogeneity. Although
geographically part of Southeast Asia, the
country is culturally strongly Euro-American.
 References:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_pluralism
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Kallen
• https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-heterogeneous-country
• http://homogeneoussociety.blogspot.com/?m=1
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_bowl_(cultural_idea)<br>
• https://www.academia.edu/1033793
• Culture_as_kaleidoscope_navigating_cultural_tensions_in_global_collabo
ration
• https://www.britannica.com/place/Philippines/Cultural-life