...clearly in Britain in 1966 by the Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, when he defined 'integration' 'not as a flattening process of uniformity but cultural diversity...atmosphere of mutual tolerance' (Rex and Tomlinson, 1979). The actual practice of multicultural societies, however, very often falls short of this ideal and a...

...concept on a 1968 statement by the British home secretary in which he defined 'integration' as involving 'not a flattening process of uniformity', but 'cultural...atmosphere of mutual tolerance' (Rex and Tomlinson 1979). I have suggested that this statement involves the simultaneous recognition of two cultural domains,...

...Secretary in 1968 have never been formally abandoned by government. These were that there should be 'not a flattening process of uniformity, but cultural...opportunity, in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance' (Rex, 1996, p. 32). Although these aims were proving remarkably difficult to achieve, by the 1980s schools...

...abandoned, however, and in 1968 the [liberal] Home Secretary [Roy Jenkins] said that what he envisaged was 'not a flattening process of uniformity, but cultural...opportunity, in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance.' Since these policy aims have never been formally abandoned, it may be assumed that, in some degree...

...abandoned, however, and in 196R the Home Secretary said that what he envisaged was "not a flanening process of uniformity, but cultural diversity, coupled with equal opportunity. in an aunosphere of mutual tolerance" [...] Since these policy aims have never formally been abandoned, it...

...to deal with the problem by defining "integration" "not as a flattening process of uniformity but as cultural diversity coupled with equal opportunity...atmosphere of mutual tolerance" (Rex and Tomlinson 1979). Unlike some definitions of multicultural societies this definition included the notion of a common...

...society. 'Integration', he wrote, had to be conceived 'not as a flattening process of uniformity but as cultural diversity coupled with equal opportunity in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance'. In my own work (Rex 1998) I have made two central points about this definition. First, it distinguishes...

...the Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, is credited with formulating the credo of British multiculturalism as not 'a flattening process of uniformity but cultural...with equal opportunity in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance'.5 In retrospect Jenkins's view became the axiomatic statement of the British state's intent...