ethnopluralism
nounEtymology From ethno- + pluralism, attributed to French New Right intellectual Alain de Benoist.
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A right-wing theory of multiculturalism, supporting separatism, and according to which cultures hinge on ethnicities bound to specific geographic locations.
- Overall, identitarians favor ethnopluralism, which is the idea that nations or ethnicities should not live in the same multicultural societies but rather in geopolitically separate territories (Salzborn 2016, 41; Hentges et al. 2014, 17).2020, Melissa Schnyder, Noha Shawki, Advocating for Refugees in the European Union, →ISBN, page 91:
- To the degree that there is a theory underlying this radical right nationalism, it is “ethnopluralism.” A term coined by the French New Right intellectual, Alain de Benoist, ethnopluralism stipulates the “equivalency of homogenous peoples in their indigenous territories.”2021, Christian Joppke, Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration and the Rise of the Populist Right, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
- Related terms
- ethnoplural, ethnopluralist, ethnopluralistic, ethnoregionalism