different between monoculturalism vs multiculturalism

English

monocultural +? -ism

monoculturalism (countable and uncountable, plural monoculturalisms)

The practice of maintaining, in a society, a single culture, suppressing the (sub)cultures of e.g. minority groups and excluding external influences.
The creation of a monoculture in agriculture.

From multicultural +? -ism.

multiculturalism (countable and uncountable, plural multiculturalisms)

The characteristics of a society, city etc. which has many different ethnic or national cultures mingling freely; political or social policies which support or encourage such coexistence. [from 20th c.]
- 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage 2015, p. 18:
  The truth is that diversity, a kind of multiculturalism if we want to call it that, is the norm in any society.

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