La diversidad cultural: de conflicto a patrimonio de la humanidad. Miradas sobre el multiculturalismo en América Latina

Abstract

out differences and has exalted “el mestizaje” in Latin America. This paper also analyzes theThis article analyzes Latin American policies within the framework of cultural diversity. It makes a special emphasis on how a liberal model portrays diversity as a conflict-ridden approach and how the current discourse ‘naturalizes’ social inequalities based solely on Western ideals. As a result, the system creates a one-way liberal culturalism, which has evened fractures of the current model and will look at those changes introduced by a neoliberal multiculturalist model, which portrays diversity in a positive way. Some policies today have allowed positive steps toward cultural rights, but haven’t resolved structural inequalities. How shall we solve these problems from a critical perspective, that’s the question?