Definitions
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- noun The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
- noun The creation of a
monoculture .
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Examples
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I also disagree that we have to be "weaned" off multiculturalism -- quite the opposite, I think monoculturalism is a bad idea.
sharia again 2005
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If he admits the truth about immigration and its problems ... as well as its benefits, then he can cast of racism as a category and open the new front of ‘Cultural capital ‘accessible to any race if we retrun to 'monoculturalism' albeit with great toleration of difference.
Archive 2007-08-26 Newmania 2007
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If he admits the truth about immigration and its problems ... as well as its benefits, then he can cast of racism as a category and open the new front of ‘Cultural capital ‘accessible to any race if we retrun to 'monoculturalism' albeit with great toleration of difference.
Whites Will Be A Minority in 20 Years Newmania 2007
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If monoculturalism, or monoethnicity is troubling to Ms. Garbes, I would recommend she not travel to many places overseas.
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Or is just the slightly more respectable fear of monoculturalism?
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Multiculturalism ought not to be state policy, nor should monoculturalism.
Multiculturalism: Mr Cameron's crude caricature solves no problems | Observer editorial 2011
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Japanese monoculturalism extends to the corporate desktop
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Japanese monoculturalism extends to the corporate desktop
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In the continuing battle between the ideas -- monoculturalism vs. polyculturalism, domination vs. justice, repression vs. change, fear vs. hope -- there is no doubt what side he is on.
Jeff Chang: The New Shape of the Culture War: Glenn Beck, Yosi Sergant, Van Jones, and Hip-Hop 2009
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(The main alternatives to balkanizing ultra - "multiculturalism" -- more accurately termed "plural monoculturalism," as Amartya Sen points out -- are often varieties of abstract legalism or cosmopolitanism equally allergic to the notion of national community.)
Andrei Markovits and Jeff Weintraub: Obama and the Progressives: A Curious Paradox 2008
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