In other parts of Europe, or in the US, the mixed societies that result from immigration are often discussed in terms of multiculturalism. From this definition we understand convivència (active relations between neighbors), in contradistinction to coexistence (minimal, passively produced relations between neighbors), and to hostility." Convivència vs multiculturalism: implications for citizenship One should bear in mind that when people live together, conflicts arise: this need not be seen as a problem but rather as an impetus to change. "We can define convivència in the broadest sense of the concept, to live in the company of others with whom we interact with empathy, sharing, communication, and the regulation of conflict. This sense of conflict as productive is an important feature of convivència.
Civisme is often understood as a top-down, legislative imposition of universal norms over the population whereas convivència (while also sometimes being legislated) is perceived as a bottom-up, neighbor-to-neighbor process whereby residents work out solutions to conflicts among themselves. In subsequent decades, the term became the dominant frame of shared social existence in Catalonia and no longer carried a passive sense of mere tolerance but rather the active engagement of relations between neighbors and of the full expression of cultural pluralism in which there is public space for all traditions Convivència overlaps semantically with the concept of civility ( civisme) to the extent that both may refer to mutual respect in the shared use of public space yet there is an important distinction. As Pujol employed the term, convivència signified tolerance and linguistic accommodation between native born Catalans and the Castilian-speaking "new Catalans" or "other Catalans" who had migrated from Southern Spain in such numbers as to constitute roughly half of the population of Catalonia.
It was first popularized in reference to contemporary phenomena by former Catalan President Jordi Pujol, in the early years of the return to democracy following the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939–75). This Muslim barber has named his shop with the Catalan word for "Friendship." This may express the Islamic value of neighborliness, often linked to convivència by Muslims in Catalonia.Ĭonvivència (literally "to live together") is a Catalan term, distinct from the Castilian term, convivencia, the latter primarily referring to the historical and disputed coexistence of Jews, Muslims and Christians in Medieval Iberia.
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