DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS AND EMERGENCE OF MULTICULTURALISM IN EUROPE
DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS AND EMERGENCE OF MULTICULTURALISM IN EUROPE

Summary/Abstract: No civilization can sustain itself in the long run in the absence of a modest rise of its population, as with the required addition in population, a civilization shapes its future course of action. Being the leading and trend setter civilization of modern times, Europe kept the Western cultural dominance with its own population. But due to various reasons, Europe could not maintain its own required population and, as a result, in the late seventies, countries of Europe witnessed migration and therefore the emergence of multiculturalism. Thus, U.K., Germany, or France have become destinations of large migration waves of people from Asia, Africa and not only, which led to the emergence of multiculturalism in Europe, in its various perspectives. The present paper has studied the role of the demographic trends in the emergence of multiculturalism in Europe, the point of discussion being whether the decline in the population of Europe has encouraged migration of the people from non-European continents and subsequently the emergence of multiculturalism. This paper would be helpful to policy makers, scholars and officials of the government to understand the relationship between demographic trends and multiculturalism and how multiculturalism is important for the development and peace of the European nations.

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