Culturalism And Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism that promotes maintaining the distinctiveness of multiple cultures is often contrasted to other settlement policies such as social integration, cultural assimilation and racial segregation. Multiculturalism has been described as “salad bowl, or cultural mosaic” rather than a “melting pot”.

The diversity of America’s past has laid the foundation for the flourishing culture we have today. Even in colonial America, we were one of the most diverse places in the world. The first federal census in 1790 recorded that one-fifth of the entire population was African-American. Those that composed the white populations had ancestries of three-fifths were English, one-fifth Scottish or Irish, and rest was of Dutch, French, German, Swedish, or other backgrounds. With such a varied foundation, it’s no surprise that those who came here felt a feeling of belonging in the new land. The belonging and acceptance did not stop at ethnicity but extended to religion as well. In fact, in colonial America, there were religious groups such as the Pilgrims, Separatists, Anglicans, Catholics, Puritans, Quakers, Lutherans, Jews, Baptists, and others. With so many

Throughout history many ethnic cliques have experienced abuse and distrust from our American society. The people in America seem to be less understanding, and less willing to accept cultures different from their own, at least years ago. Groups such as the Indians, the African Americans, and the Immigrants, fall deeply into this category. The situations and struggles they have gone through are greatly explained in Ronald Takaki’s novel, “A Different Mirror, A History of a Multicultural America.” Although they have experienced a lot, particular financial and social configuration have changed, helping change our perspective of each civilization, for better or even worse.

America: land of the free and home of the brave. For generations children have been raised from a young age to value these morals that the United States stands for. American values have long been seen as the ray of hope for millions of people around the globe. Immigrants from every imaginable culture flood to the United States each year, possessing only the tattered dreams of a better life. But do we truly live up to this grand title we have claimed for hundreds of years? Instead of offering freedom to all who seek it, we now cower behind false stereotypes and grant it only to those luck few who we deem worthy. While unrestricted immigration into the United States is not probable, the proposed extensive immigration policies that target specific races or religions are violations of human rights

In the world, there is a continuous movement of people from one place to another, from one country to another due to various reasons that require such changes. In this context immigration into America has been evidenced for an extended period whereby people from multiple nations tend to prefer moving to America rather than any other country, and this is either illegally or legally. The American identity at large as significantly been compromised by such migrations resulting in an identity crisis.

Multiculturalism means diversity of cultures that includes: racial, religious, and values. This topic is now frequently discussed between our public schools and media that among directly affect our community. In Hasia Diner essay, “Some Problems with ‘Multiculturalism;’ or ‘The Best Laid Plans…” she argues that multiculturalism is a very unequal topic in society, which many people really do not know what it is. Diner wrote the essay in response to those who have misconceptions toward multiculturalism besides to social and economic climate, a situation that created a heated controversy among American society. Diner is describing about her disappoint about multiculturalism. As Diner notes, multiculturalism is hailed by contemporary requirements between teaching and learning the culture. However, Diner argues toward majorities of people who are being divided between social economics.

The United States is a multicultural society in which health professionals handle people from various origins. Now the question is: “How nurses meet diversified needs of human lives?” Each day, nurses make optimistic changes in human lives by providing care. This holistic care includes each and every aspect of health. This includes, but isn’t limited to physical, intellectual, emotional, and significantly cultural dimensions. In order for nurses to provide transcultural care, they need to be knowledgeable to understand significance of cultural diversity and take measures to provide culture competent care.

Do you agree with Rosado’s definition of multiculturalism? Would you add or delete information to/from his definition?

Multiculturalism and Social diversity is so important and yet so many people still carry around the race card. Social diversity and multiculturalism is more prevalent in the justice system than anything else in society today. According to the ABA the African-America race faces an incarceration rate that is six times that of whites.

The emerging and ever changing concept of multiculturalism makes it difficult to define. Various research papers have looked at many different concepts of multiculturalism. Joyce Mosely argues that multiculturalism is the mixing and sharing of cultural groups who value their diversity, and is a natural way of life that is all encompassing (4). Likewise Sharyn Pearce discusses multiculturalism as not just the co-existence of cultures it is a mix of various cultures (1). Jennifer Higgins takes a more simplistic approach saying that multiculturalism is a term “variably used to describe groups of people from non-white background, people of colour, or people of all cultures regardless of race” (5) The Australian Government Department of Social Services defines it as a “term which describes the cultural and ethnic diversity of contemporary Australia,” as well as detailing it as an integral part of Australian society (13). For the purposes of this research paper multiculturalism will be defined as the ethnic and cultural diversity of Australian society as well as the sharing of culture amoungst all members of society.

In 1970, the emergence of multiculturalism began, first in Canada and Australia, and then in the United States as well as others. Multiculturalism is the diversity of two or more cultures in a region or country. According to Bhikhn Parekh, the author or Rethinking Multiculturalism, best understands multiculturalism as a “perspective on or a way of viewing life.” Bhikhu Parekh in his novel, Rethinking Multiculturalism, argues for a pluralist view on cultural diversity. He brings upon many explanations on why a pluralistic society should be allowed to thrive in a single society. In his reading Parekh, explains in depth the reasons behind why cultural differences should be respected and tolerated. The main point of Parekh’s essay is how multicultural societies are bound to create situations of disagreement between communities and create crisis. Parekh’s essay involves weighing in on particular cultural traditions against the values of the larger multicultural society, that is, the balancing of diverse forms of “thick” and “thin” considerations. Parekh, suggests that much the the “acimony could have been avoided if the parties had, had access to a public forum where perceptions and emotions could have been tried and mutually tested.” This paper will focus on the Muslim religion and provide information of the misunderstanding of the religion. More importantly, this paper will explain Parekh’s conceived theory of multiculturalism and the challenges that politics, religion and

The issue of immigrants conforming to Australian values has divided many. Furthermore, the issue has been debated by two conflicting perspectives; one side representing multiculturalism and the other representing conservative nationalism. This essay will argue that the conservative nationalist position that immigrants must conform to Australian values is problematic as it seeks to exclude minority groups and thus forces these groups to conform. Prior to this, the statement will be argued by offering explanations on what Australian values are and the notion of citizenship and citizenship testing, assimilation, and what is meant by ‘Team Australia’ as it relates respectively. This essay will also analyse briefly the arguments of multiculturalism.

In the essays, “Immigration Benefits America,” by Bill Clinton and “Immigration Threatens American Culture,” by Lawrence Auster, both authors address a similar issue which points to the challenges that face America’s diverse nation of immigrants. In Clinton’s essay, he claims that although many Americans may fear that immigration will ruin the country’s unity, immigrants and Americans must fulfill their responsibilities to make America unified. To keep the country united, citizens must welcome the new immigrants by giving them their best chance for success, and immigrants must fulfill their responsibility by learning, working, and making contributions to the country. On the contrary, in “Immigration Threatens American Culture,” Auster argues that a change must be made in America’s belief system that all men have equality, individualism, diversity, unity and liberty because these beliefs within the system has led to mass immigration from non-European countries. If these mainstream beliefs are not changed, then America’s culture will be abandoned. Although Clinton and Auster’s essay are both effective, Clinton’s essay is more effective than Auster’s because of his use of substantial details for his claims and his unbiased tone towards the topic.

Multiculturalism is act of living all kinds of people with different kinds of religion, caste, color, race, and sex in a same society or community. There are billions of living organisms living in this planet but all are subdivided by how they behave and how they look. In this all living creatures, human beings have classified themselves as one of the most intelligent and well developed than others. As all we can say that human beings are superior to others. But there is a tradition that has been alive from thousands of year. All human beings are divided according to their culture, caste, religion, sex, and race. Although multiculturalism is a blessing, I argue that multiculturalism sometimes can be cruel and can have a bad influence of one’s own culture to other culture because of their beliefs and values.

The world we inhabit today is home to many different individuals representing several cultural and ethnic backgrounds that are all distinct from one another in some shape or form. In today’s modern world, there are struggles between preserving cultural practices and conforming to the notion of “progress”. Progress, at its core, implies subjectivity. The word is open to interpretation by whomever, both having positive and negative impacts on our multicultural world. The positives usually come in the form of better technologies, infrastructure, and medicines. These all promote a sense of easier living as they all ease the hardships each individual has to go through on a daily basis. However, the negatives that come along with progress are more complicated than its counterpart. Since our view of progress is skewed, we, as individuals living in a first-world country, typically view progress as something that makes living day to day easier. Yet, for the underdeveloped countries, the same scale cannot be used. A cell phone, for example, doesn’t have much use in the middle of the African Sahara. However, a cell phone used in the middle of New York City, New York may be of incredible use. The way we scope progress from our first-world perspective causes us to believe something that is different from what we consider the norm, is somehow beneath us. Popular consumer cultural and our mode of democracy causes us to believe that freedom and productivity are the only ways to achieve true