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The existence of such institutions and practices is possible if the cultural communities responsible for them are protected by law and accepted by the larger society in a pluralist culture. Cultural pluralism is a necessary consequence of a flourishing and peaceful democratic society, because of its tolerance and respect for cultural and ethnic diversity.
The idea of cultural pluralism in America was first mentioned in Randolf Bourne's essay "Transcendental America" in 1910.
Indissociable from a democratic framework, culturalpluralism is conducive to cultural exchange and to the flourishing of creative capacities that sustain public life.
Cultural diversity widens the range of options open to everyone; it is one of the roots of development, understood not simply in terms of economic growth, but also as a means to achieve a more satisfactory intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual existence.
Freedom of expression, media pluralism, multilingualism, equal access to art and to scientific and technological knowledge, including in digital form, and the possibility for all cultures to have access to the means of expression and dissemination are the guarantees of cultural diversity.
In all the debate over cultural relativism, the culture to which such things as values, morals, perception, standards, and so forth were said to be (or not to be) relative was left largely unexamined and undefined.
Cultural relativism grew out of anthropology and given that field’s widely recognized failure to reach consensus on a precise definition of culture, arguably its master concept, this is understandable.
And cultural analysis is predicated on methodological relativism: a lifting of the burdens (and the comforts) of moral judgments.
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