Cultural diversity

Under cultural diversity (rarely referred to as "Socio-diversity") refers to the existence of multiple identities and cultures within and between human groups and societies. Cultural diversity is a manifestation of diversity .

Aspects

The Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity of the United Nations postulates that cultural diversity "as a source of exchange, renewal and creativity is just as important for humanity as biological diversity is for nature".

One aspect of cultural diversity is linguistic diversity.

The concept of cultural diversity or cultural diversity has been taken up in other international declarations and conventions such as the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005), the Montréal Declaration (2007) and in European Union documents .

Cultural diversity is seen as one of the roots of cultural change , understood as the path to a more fulfilling intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual existence. The models of the cultural areas represent an attempt to record and classify the diversity on earth .

A particularly large variety of different indigenous and local cultures can be found in those areas that are also characterized by an extraordinarily high level of biodiversity .

The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (English: World Day for Cultural Diversity, for Dialogue and Development ) is a day of action of UNESCO , which is celebrated annually on 21 May. It is intended to create awareness of cultural diversity.

Increase or decrease in sociodiversity

Thomas Bauer cannot see any trend towards increasing cultural diversity in the world; As a result of the global processes of rationalization and secularization, he sees the loss of diversity in cultures, languages ​​and lifestyles as the predominant tendency. As early as the 1920s, Stefan Zweig felt a "slight horror of the monotonous world". He saw the cause above all in the "means of mechanization of mankind [...] imported from the USA, which offer pleasure without demanding effort". The standardization of fashions, dance, hairstyles, cinema, sports and forms of entertainment in everyday life, through which we become “colonies of his (America) life”, served as indicators. Even before the First World War, Walter Rathenau argued in a similar way that specialization and abstraction of the machine world had shaped the mental habitus of people so much that all areas of life were increasingly determined by complicated uniformity.

See also

• Diversity (sociology)
• Interculturality
• Intercultural Competence
• Multilingualism
• Multiculturalism
• Super diversity
• Transculturality

Portal: Integration  - Articles, categories and more on intercultural dialogue and integration

literature

• German UNESCO Commission V .: SHAPING CULTURAL DIVERSITY: Recommendations for action from civil society for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) in and through Germany - White Book (PDF; 1.2 MB). As of December 2009, accessed July 3, 2011
• Mario d'Angelo: Diversité culturelle et dialogue des civilizations: l'évolution des concepts de 1990 à 2001. coll. Innovations & Développement, numéro 7, Idée Europe, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-909941-06-X .

Web links

• UNESCO: General Declaration on Cultural Diversity ( Memento of February 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
• UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural Diversity - English version (2005) (PDF file; 954 kB)
• UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity
• Coalition for Cultural Diversity
• UK Coalition for Cultural Diversity

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl Christian von Weizsäcker: Logic of Globalization . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, ISBN 3-525-34010-9 , p. 166.
2. ↑ see Article 1 in the General Declaration on Cultural Diversity , accessed on September 16, 2019 from the website of the German UNESCO Commission.
3. ↑ General declaration on cultural diversity . UNESCO website . Retrieved July 28, 2013.
4. ↑ Anja von Hahn: Traditional knowledge of indigenous and local communities between intellectual property rights and the public domain. Springer, Berlin 2004, pp. 38–39.
5. ↑ Thomas Bauer: The disambiguation of the world: About the loss of ambiguity and diversity. Reclam, Stuttgart 2018.
6. ↑ Stefan Zweig: The monotonization of the world. (1925) In: Ders .: The monotonization of the world: essays and lectures. Frankfurt 1976, p. 7.
7. ↑ Zweig 1976, p. 12.
8. ↑ Zweig 1976, p. 10.
9. ^ Walter Rathenau: The mechanization of the world. Social science series no.7, Neckar-Verlag, Schwenningen 1948.