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For instance, the artists and the people who have a background of cultural education should be incorporated in social activities and be given different occupations in society that would make the most of their abilities. Cultural democracy can also be a way to counteract unemployment as a negative effect of the dominating marketplace. It would be ideal for cabinets to exist in the State Department so as to ensure the stimulation and the encouragement of cultural democracy. An essential part of this program should also be constituted by the forwarding of multicultural education, with an emphasis on the role of educational environments in promoting cultural pluralism, mutual awareness, communication and cooperation between the different subcultures extant in the country. The focus of the entire process is therefore on the decentralization of authority, so as to allow for every subculture to have its own, individual voice in the state and to be able to express itself. Thus, to achieve the goals set by cultural democracy, one of the most important things to be taken into consideration would be to monitor the way in which...
It is crucial to understand and value the role that each subculture has in the structure of the human communities.
Therefore, through cultural policy, essential values such as democracy, diversity, freedom, cultural pluralism and the right to culture can be preserved. Culture can be used as a means to keep at bay the negative effects of political or commercial interests on society. At the same time though, the effect of social and political life on culture should be noted, and the essential cultural values should be protected against other forces.
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Adams, D. And Arlene Goldbard.(1987) Cultural Democracy: A New Cultural Policy for the United States.. http://www.wwcd.org/policy/U.S./proposals/US_policy.html
Comprehensive Cultural Policy for the State of California. http://www.culturalpolicy.org/pdf/acc.pdf
What is Cultural Policy?" Webster's World of Cultural Democracy. http://www.wwcd.org/policy/U.S./proposals/CA_policy.html
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