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How does a multicultural society accommodate diversities of all kinds — ethnic, linguistic and religious? Discuss its major challenges.

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  • Religion and Society

J. S. Furnivall (Colonial Policy and Practice, 1948) described colonial Burma and Java as plural societies: peoples who "mix but do not combine", meeting only in the marketplace. A multicultural society differs by design: it seeks to give ethnic, linguistic and religious groups public recognition and fair terms of coexistence, not mere cohabitation.

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