# Ethnopluralism **Ethnopluralism** (also ethno-differentialism) is the doctrine that each people possesses a distinct ethnocultural identity with a "right to difference," that this requires a relatively homogeneous homeland, and that the mixing of peoples destroys human cultural diversity. It is the signature theoretical move of the French [[New Right]] and the conceptual engine of the [[Identitarian Movement]]. It was developed principally by [[Alain de Benoist]] and the GRECE think tank. ## The "cultural turn in racism" Ethnopluralism's importance is that it lets the far right argue for ethnic separation **without** asserting a racial hierarchy. Classical white supremacism claims some races are superior; ethnopluralism instead claims all identities are equally valuable and must therefore be kept separate to be preserved. In the 1970s de Benoist deliberately shifted [[Nouvelle Droite]] framing from a **biological** to a **cultural** model of difference, invoking a *droit à la différence* ("right to difference") — a phrase he adapted from the earlier far-right writer Dominique Venner — and turning it against immigration and integration. Scholars call this "the cultural turn in racism": the passage from pseudo-scientific biological racism to exclusion based on culture and ethnicity. The French philosopher **Pierre-André Taguieff** coined the term **"differentialist racism"** to describe it, arguing that the doctrine's insistence on incompatible, organically bounded cultures rationalizes segregation just as effectively as biological racism did — while disguising supremacist aims behind egalitarian, anti-totalitarian, even anti-colonial language. ## Why it matters Ethnopluralism is the **respectability technology** of the modern far right. It is what allows [[Génération Identitaire]] to claim it merely "loves its own identity," allows [[Identity Evropa]] to flyer campuses about "European heritage," and allows [[Remigration]] to be framed as restoring each people to its rightful place rather than as expulsion. It also provides the rhetorical bridge by which the [[Great Replacement Theory]] can be presented as concern for diversity rather than racial panic. For the KB, ethnopluralism is the upstream disguise layer of the identitarian cluster — the move that makes everything downstream sayable in polite company. Recognizing it is the key to reading the difference between what the movement says (defending diversity) and what it advocates (ethnic separation and removal). ## See Also - [[Alain de Benoist]] — the doctrine's principal theorist - [[New Right]] — the Nouvelle Droite tradition - [[Identitarian Movement]] — the movement it underpins - [[Remigration]] — the policy it provides cover for - [[Great Replacement Theory]] — the conspiracy it reframes as "concern for diversity"