Beyond Multiculturalism A Face-To-Face Encounter With The Other Introduction In order to deal with the ethnic issue, governments implemented the policies of assimilation and multiculturalism. Policy-makers of assimilation want members of each ethnic group to lose their ethnic personality so they may easily adopt the values of the dominant culture; while those of multiculturalism desire that the members maintain their ethnic identities in the hope that the members will be fully integrated into society. Both policies failed in their endeavour to accommodate the ethnic groups because the huma...
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