Nationalism and multiculturalism seem to have opposed approaches to cultural diversity. However, recent calls for a “multicultural national identity” suggest the need for more nuances on this relation. This paper responds to these calls, and to some initial doubts, providing an account of political community, nationalism and multiculturalism conducive to fuller theorization of a multicultural form of national identity. To do this, it conceptualizes nationalism, liberalism and multiculturalism in terms of the concept of political belonging. It argues that, understood as modes of belonging, nationalism and multiculturalism are not incompatible, and indeed, the latter is a reconstruction of the symbolic terms of social unity of the former. Specifically, multiculturalism entails a form of national belonging that makes cultural difference a constitutive part of national unity, opening possibilities of diverse political community. Key to understanding this is distinguishing between general and specific valuations of diversity within multiculturalism. The paper further argues that a multicultural national identity is a viable alternative to existing models of national identity, offering both a different set of normative prescriptions and an alternative understanding of existing national identity in liberal‐democratic states.

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多元文化主义和民族主义：属于不同政治共同体的模式

民族主义和多元文化主义似乎对文化多样性持相反的态度。但是，最近对“多元文化民族身份”的呼吁表明，在这种关系上需要更多细微差别。本文回应了这些呼吁以及一些最初的疑问，为政治共同体，民族主义和多元文化主义的发展做出了贡献，这有助于对民族身份的多元文化形式进行更全面的理论化。为此，它从政治归属的概念上将民族主义，自由主义和多元文化主义概念化。它认为，民族主义和多元文化主义被理解为归属方式，并不是不相容的，实际上，后者是对前者社会统一性的象征性术语的重构。具体来说，多元文化主义需要一种民族归属感，使文化差异成为民族团结的组成部分，从而开启了多元化的政治共同体的可能性。理解这一点的关键是在多元文化主义中区分对多样性的一般和特定的估价。该论文进一步指出，多元文化的民族认同是现有民族认同模式的可行替代方案，既提供了一套不同的规范性规定，又提供了对自由民主国家现有民族认同的另一种理解。