This paper analyzes how the multiculturalism that is integrated into European educational policies constitutes individuals that are inherent to modern governmental configurations and modes of governance, who perceive and conduct themselves as European multicultural citizens that not only tolerate and respect cultural diversity but also understand it as an advantage in a world that demands flexibility, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Through European education policies, multiculturalism as a governing technology stimulates standardization and homogenization of particular knowledge through which continuous (re)creation of job skills is (re)affirmed. Job skills are essential to the individual in order to adapt to the labor market in a changing and culturally diverse European economy. The diversity of cultures within the European space is a cornerstone of the common European identity and is prevailingly understood as comparative advantage on the global market.
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