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The aim of this paper is to propose a liberal criterion, with which we could surmount the practices of exclusion and intolerance critically that have deprived the cultural minorities in the global community of human rights. I advocate that a solid criterion of just multiculturalism could be establis...

The aim of this paper is to propose a liberal criterion, with which we could surmount the practices of exclusion and intolerance critically that have deprived the cultural minorities in the global community of human rights. I advocate that a solid criterion of just multiculturalism could be established only on the basis of the concept of liberal mutual respect of all the individuals in the global community. But today, the general bond of sympathy toward multiculturalistic tolerance seems to be spreading, not on the basis of the universal agreement with a certain philosophical ‘principle,’ but just as a ‘fashion’ of cultural fusion following the globalization. This is why sometimes multiculturalism seems to be only a drift of public opinion absolutely praising the virtues of tolerance without any prospect of solidarity based on the principles of justice. In consideration of this, we must be more cautious in accepting and valuing multiculturalism. The idea that all the cultures deserve equal respect may easily change into the value-blind standpoint that even democracy is not inherently more valuable than dictatorship. This neutralistic tolerance often appears, not as a political attitude of progressive forces which fight against the practices of exclusion and intolerance depriving cultural minorities of their liberal rights, but as one of conservative forces which fear the destructive effect of the liberal conception of justice upon the traditional ‘common goods’ of existing cultural communities. For these reasons, I advocate that today’s urgent multiculturalistic demands could be properly satisfied, not by the cultural relativism based on the attitude of indifferent tolerance, but by the universalistic concept of human rights which offers us the principles of trans-cultural evaluation and regulation.

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