Definition for Multiculturalism
From Biology Forums Dictionary
1) The existence within one society of diverse groups that maintain unique cultural identities while frequently accepting and participating in the larger society’s legal and political system. Multiculturalism is usually used in conjunction with the term diversity to identify many distinctions of social significance.
2) a set of beliefs based on the importance of seeing the world from different cultural frames of reference and valuing the diversity of cultures in the global community.