%0 Journal Article %T La imposibilidad del multiculturalismo en una naci¨®n multicultural %A Ram¨ªrez Gonz¨¢lez %A Irma %A Arriaga Ornelas %A Jos¨¦ Luis %J Culturales %D 2011 %I Universidad Aut¨®noma de Baja California %X in this essay offers some ideas to the debate about the imposition of a national law in mexico that does not consider the particular categories of indigenous communities. we reflect on whether the existence of a legal system with mono-ethnic homogenizing trend and approach is compatible with multiculturalism. the intention is to show how the creation of a discursive field that makes visible the indians did not always translate into a legal system that enables its ontological existence. it also tries to show the process of construction of otherness that the double function as a source of national identity and indigenous culturalization visibility purposes explaining taxonomic diversity, but also used. %K multiculturalism %K legal pluralism %K indian. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1870-11912011000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en