different between multiculturalism vs fundamentalism

English

Etymology

From multicultural +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?lt??k?lt?????l?z(?)m/

Noun

multiculturalism (countable and uncountable, plural multiculturalisms)

1. 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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See also

• cosmopolitan
• culturism

English

Etymology

fundamental +? -ism.

Pronunciation

Noun

fundamentalism (countable and uncountable, plural fundamentalisms)

1. (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

   Synonym: bibliolatry

2. (by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
   • 2009, Thomas A. Regelski, J. Terry Gates, Music Education for Changing Times: Guiding Visions for Practice

     Recent books by philosopher Roger Scruton (1999, 2000) and music educator Robert Walker (2007) may be interpreted as a last desperate gasp of this form of musical fundamentalism or neoconservativism—the kind that tells the masses what is "good for them" on the grounds that they lack adequate bases for judgments on their own […]

3. (finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.

Related terms

• fundamentalist

Derived terms

• Islamic fundamentalism
• market fundamentalism

See also

• (religion): orthodoxy
• (finance): technical analysis, value investing

Translations

References

• fundamentalism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fundamentalism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• fundamentalism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.