多元文化问题不同于多元文化主义,它关注的是差异中的相同性是如何被想象和建构的问题。它具体体现在社区、国家和全球三个层面上,并具有差异性与相同性的内在张力。一个多元文化的社会必然会有不止一个群体之间的交流和争议,因而,必须有一些共同框架,可以在其中协调不同的观点、信仰和利益的尖锐冲突。这种框架也不能是简单地由一个群体代表大多数和全体的框架———这是过去欧洲中心主义同化作用的框架。一个群体或共同体特定的和特殊的差异性,不能在无视所有其他人所确认的特殊价值观念的背景下得以确认。这需要我们超越现存的政治话语的传统界限,在它们现存的备好的答案之外去思考。 Multiculturalism differs from multiculturalism in that it focuses on the question of how the sameness of difference is conceived and constructed. It embodied in the community, the country and the world at three levels, and with the inherent difference between the same tension. A multicultural society is bound to have more than one group of exchanges and disputes. Therefore, there must be some common framework in which sharp conflicts of different opinions, beliefs and interests can be coordinated. Nor can such a framework be a framework that simply represents the majority and the whole by one group - the framework of the assimilation of the past Eurocentrism. The specific and specific differences of a group or community can not be affirmed in the context of ignoring the special values ​​recognized by all others. This requires us to think beyond the traditional boundaries of existing political discourse beyond their existing prepared answers.