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We
address four issues in this discussion paper: definitions of multiculturalism;
multiculturalism and the neo-liberal project; the ‘right
to be understood’ within the multi-ethnic public sphere;
and some practical considerations bearing upon professional education
and training. By intercultural communication we designate any
and all forms of communication between people with differing cultural
imaginaries, without assuming any necessary ideological coherence
or “ethnic purity” in those imaginaries. We do not limit
our focus to the interpersonal or group levels of communication,
nor do we find the scientistic empiricism of much interpersonal
intercultural communication research offers a heuristically adequate
strategy for understanding the phenomena given its routine disciplinary
narrowness.[1]
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