The concept of a multi‐cultural society

The staff of the Research Unit on Ethnic Relations have always felt it necessary to distinguish the research which they do from other kinds of research and writing. On the one hand they have felt that they should perform more than a technical role gathering facts which might be useful to government in the pursuit of undisclosed policy objectives. On the other, if the ends of such policies are to be subject to criticism, some way has had to be found of distinguishing the value standards used by researchers from those of political partisans.