Policies that are aimed at persuading or forcing all citizens to adopt a uniform set of cultural values and norms:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Assimilationist
Option (1) Cosmopolitanist — Incorrect. A cosmopolitan attitude is one in which local ties and narrow views give way to universal commitments, an openness to the wider world. It is an outlook of people, not a state policy that forces one culture on all citizens.
Option (2) Pluralist — Incorrect. Pluralism accepts multiple and complementary identities living side by side, which is the reverse of a uniform culture.
Option (3) Assimilationist — Correct. Policies that promote assimilation are aimed at persuading, encouraging or forcing all citizens to adopt a uniform set of cultural values and norms, usually those of the dominant group. Other groups are expected to give up their own culture and take on the prescribed one.
Option (4) Acculturist — Incorrect. Acculturation is the slow process by which a group takes on the ways of another culture through long contact, as many tribes were absorbed into caste Hindu society through the ages. It describes what happens between groups over time, not a policy by which a state demands one culture from all its citizens.
NCERT (2025-26): “Communities, Nations and Nation-States … Policies that promote assimilation are aimed at persuading, encouraging or forcing all citizens to adopt a uniform set of cultural values and norms. These values and norms are usually entirely or largely those of the dominant social group. Other, non-dominant or subordinated groups in society are expected or required to give up their own cultural values and adopt the prescribed ones.…” |