Multiculturalism, Specialization, and Cooperation

So-called multiculturalism - understood as a purely voluntary phenomenon - is simply the cultural expression of social cooperation based on productive specialization and division of labor, which is bound to take on an increasingly important role in a globalized, human-capital-based economy. It goes without saying that as such it has nothing to do with coercive social engineering trying to capture the naturally positive connotations of this term.