Arguing against this point of ‘minority nationalism,’ Kymlicka uses the term ‘postethnic multi-culturalism’ (2000: 229–32),
which appears to mean a form of tolerance that can exist within nation-state and/or within semi-autonomous regions or groups within the nation-state (e.g. the wideranging acceptance of immigrants from all over the world in Quebec). While groups such as the Québécois may have a sense of group culture and the boundaries of that culture, that does not mean that they cannot at the same time be open to multiculturalism. How far many countries are past ‘minority nationalism’, however, is a telling question on whether this concept works or not.