3.2. The Azerbaijani Model of Multiculturalism in the Light of Identity
There is a view that the progressive significance of multiculturalism derives from recognition, tolerance and equality for all cultures and nations in society alongside attempts to begin permanent integration. The realization of this aspiration for social integration in turn ensures social stability and welfare, making integration sustainable.
Though the heads of three leading European countries (Germany, Great Britain and France) did not doubt the need for different cultures to coexist peacefully within a country, they still declared the failure of multiculturalism, emphasizing its ‘inconsistencies’. According to experts, the collapse of multiculturalism in Western Europe is, primarily, the result of a misguided political strategy. The strategy relied on an inadequate state paradigm for the organization of mutual cooperation among ethnic, racial, religious and cultural communities within a single country leading to multicultural disintegration.
Successful integration requires numerous objective and subjective factors, of which socio-economic factors are the most important. That is, it was a question of solving problems related more to immigration than to multiculturalism, social problems rather than the problems ‘transferred’ onto the cultural plane by multicultural rhetoric.
In conditions of globalization, for the sake of social stability a modern nation state has to ensure its sovereignty through self-defence, on the one hand, and the continuous consolidation of the principles of diversity and ensuring a balance of forces, on the other. This historical need for the implementation of multicultural ideology is particularly urgent in historical nation states, and is based on the possibility of coexistence of national minorities. Restriction of their rights would stimulate ethnic nationalism, and
the ethnic groups consisting of immigrants act as the proponents of ethnocultural pluralism in the society that receives them. The most important of these principles is that of dealing in law through the functions of the state with all social relations and conflicts that might arise. Thus, the stability of a modern nation and its difference from an ethnic group are connected with the activity of the state.
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