Enhancing authentic cultural pluralism

UNESCO's programme includes the following: identifying factors which can create the conditions for an authentic cultural pluralism in multicultural societies.

1. Pluralism does not simply mean tolerating diversity. It is getting beyond being politically correct. Authentic pluralism means being willing to accept the fact that one's own limited world view is just that, that there are billions of other limited world views, that that is the way of the world and that is good.

1. Strengthening intercultural dialogue
2. Strengthening cultural identity
3. Developing principles of sustainability

1. Promoting cultural exchanges
2. Advocating linguistic purism

1. Advocating political pluralism

1. Rehearsing wider corporate identity

1. Divisive effects of official cultural pluralism

1. Unauthenticity