Monoculturalist

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An individual who champions the idea of a single cultural identity while opposing multicultural influences
2. A person who endorses the predominance of one culture, resisting the integration of diverse cultural practices
3. Someone who supports maintaining one dominant culture without adopting others

Etymology: "Monoculturalist" is built from "mono-", from Greek "monos" meaning "single" or "alone," and "culture," which comes into English through French from Latin "cultura," originally meaning tilling or cultivating the soil. The "-ist" suffix marks a person who advocates or practises something. Put together, the word names someone who champions one cultivated way of life. The formation is transparent, and it is a modern coinage rather than an old word. It belongs to the same family as "monoculture," which was used in agriculture for growing a single crop across a large area before it was applied to human societies in the twentieth century. The word "multiculturalism" arrived in the mid-twentieth century, and "monoculturalist" was formed as its opposite in the wake of that debate.