Banning minarets by referendum in Switzerland, publicly burning
Korans in the United States, prohibiting kirpans in public spaces
in Canada--these are all examples of the rising backlash against
diversity that is spreading across multicultural societies. Trust
has always been precarious, and never more so than as a result of
increased immigration. The number of religions, races, ethnicities,
and cultures living together in democratic communities and governed
by shared political institutions is rising. The failure to
construct public policy to cope with this diversity--to ensure that
trust can withstand the pressure that diversity can pose--is a
failure of democracy. The threat to trust originates in the
perception that the values and norms that should underpin a public
culture are no longer truly shared. Therefore, societies must focus
on building trust through a revitalized public culture. In Trust,
Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges, Patti Tamara Lenard plots
a course for this revitalization. She argues that trust is at the
center of effective democratic politics, that increasing
ethnocultural diversity as a result of immigration may generate
distrust, and therefore that democratic communities must work to
generate the conditions under which trust between newcomers and
"native" citizens can be built, so that the quality of democracy is
sustained.
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