AO1 Multiculturalists support minority rights as culture is critical to human nature and support minority rights to protect minority cultures. AO2 Multiculturalism aims to promote minority rights to protect minority cultures as the identity of humans is bound up in their cultures and there is s an agreement in its support of minority rights as the liberal state cannot be seen as neutral, so the state needs to promote minority rights, such a group differentiated rights (Kymlicka) to show they are committed to minority cultures and in return they will be committed to the state and society. [IJ] This shows clear agreement with multiculturalism over the importance of minority rights. AO1 Most multiculturalists support group differentiated rights. AO2 Much of multiculturalism supports the idea of group differentiated rights across a range of areas such self-government rights, polyethnic rights and representation rights (Kymlicka). [IJ] This shows a high level of agreement within multiculturalism for minority rights. AO1 Multiculturalists strongly reject assimilation. AO2 Multiculturalists oppose assimilation as it ignores the importance of culture and identity (Taylor), leading to alienation, inequality and injustice that undermine the unity of society whilst also recognising that the provision of individual rights in the liberal state is not enough to counter the lack of neutrality of the liberal state (Kymlicka) and so support minority rights. [IJ] This shows clear agreement within multiculturalism over the importance of minority rights.

AO1 There is disagreement between cosmopolitan multiculturalists and the rest of multiculturalism about the reasons for protecting minority cultures. AO2 Cosmopolitan multiculturalists support minority rights to promote cosmopolitan integration that dissolves cultural groups to create global citizens and that culture is a matter of choice whilst other multiculturalists support the minority rights due to the importance of culture to identity (Taylor, Kymlicka) and humans are culturally embedded (Parekh). [IJ] This shows clear disagreements within multiculturalism over their reasons for supporting minority rights. AO1 There is no agreement over how far the support for minority cultures should extend. AO2 Multiculturalists disagree over the extent of support for minority rights they are willing to support in society. Liberal multiculturalists support groups differentiated rights as they promote the liberal values of autonomy and justice (Kymlicka) whilst pluralist multiculturalists support minority rights due to their support for deep diversity and their belief that humans are culturally embedded (Parekh). [IJ] This shows clear disagreements within multiculturalism over minority rights. AO1 There are disagreements over how minority rights fit within a liberal framework. AO2 Whilst multiculturalists support minority rights within a liberal framework (Kymlicka), pluralist multiculturalists reject this framework due to the ideas of value pluralism (Berlin) or their rejection of liberal universalism (Parekh). [IJ] This shows clear divisions within multiculturalism over minority rights.