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Individuality And Diversity In America

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The first colonists that founded our country were dominated by white folks. In today’s America , there are too many cultures to name. Diversity is essential to our nation’s society. Diversity is essential for our country being what it is known for today. While some people believe that uniformity and conformity are encouraged more, it can be argued that diversity and individuality are encouraged because people resist assimilation and people are encouraged for their differences.
In the last few decades, people have started to resist assimilation. For instance, Eric Liu says, “America is white not longer, and it will never be again” (Source 2). Instead of being all white, people of other cultures or ethnicities know what they are and do not try to fit in with the crowd. Additionally, one can see how the rejection is happening in schools. One can see that “bilingual schooling was popularized in the seventies, that decade when middle-class ethics began to resist the process of assimilation” (Source 3). The rejection has been happening because people want to. People do not want to conform to just one culture,but learn about the different cultures that are before them. …show more content…

Bilinguists have said this by “insist[ing] that a student should be reminded of his differences from others in mass society” (Source 3). Allowing other students to know about other cultures or languages to help other know they are different but not for a bad reason. Students are willing to accept who they are without thinking that something is different about them. Rodrigues says “full individuality is achieved, paradoxically, by those who are able to consider themselves members of the crowd”(Source 3). Some might say they have to fit in first, but they do eventually gain individuality. They gain this individuality through their discovery with others and how they compare with other

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