National Unity

Many statistics back this up, including the survey Amy Chua used, which asked 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers how they felt about academic success. The statistics showed 70% of the American parents thought that stressing academic success is not good for children while on the other hand, a broad majority of the Chinese mothers thought that academic success reflects upon successful parenting, and they truly believe that their children will be the the smartest students. Many studies have shown that Western parents and Chinese parents raise their children with a different mindset. According to the studies Amy Chua presents, a typical Chinese child spends 10 times longer than the Western child doing academic activities, but the Western child is also 10 times more likely to play a sport. A result of Chinese parents forcing their children to work harder has made society adjust to them and allows them to do things and get away with a Western parent would never think of or be able to get away with.

Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, Seventh Edition, by Donna M. Gollnick and Philip C. Chinn. Published by Prentice-Hall/Merrill. Copyright © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc.

Today in America, we live in a country that honors freedom, and diversity. Over the past century, there have been many conflicts throughout the world due to nations differing views about important issues such as freedom, economics, and a need for power. As a new nation, the United States had to figure out where it stood and how it fit into the larger scheme of the world. As older countries who were closer to each other geographically fought over borders and religion and conflicting ideologies, America had an opportunity to align itself with established nations whose way of life matched closest to what we wanted to be. The modern world we live in today, has been shaped socially, economically, and culturally by past conflicts and wars, most

Oliver Kemper said, “The foundation of freedom is unity.” So if we want America to stay free, the first thing we need is unity. I believe in an America where we are unified as one.

In the midst of the Space Race, Cold War, and Vietnam War people hoped that the 1960’s would bring a more optimistic time in America. The 1950’s drained America’s resources, from funding wars, containing communism, preventing inflation, competing for technological advancements, and trying to deal with the civil rights movement. Economically, politically and socially, America had enough on its plate. The 1960’s brought the election of President Kennedy was a light at the end of the tunnel. He brought aspirations of change, aimed to fight inequality, overcome injustice and help America get back on its feet. In spite of that, only a year into Kennedy’s term, major steel corporations went against the president 's requests for stable prices and drastically increased prices by 3.5 percent. Immediately President Kennedy addressed steel corporation CEOs and updated Americans about what happened and how it was not in public interest. With finesse he maneuvered through the topic, Kennedy flawlessly executed an us vs them argument while maintaining the American ideals of patriotism and unity. In “JFK Steel Speech”, President John F. Kennedy used pathos, logos and ethos to urge steel corporations to lower their prices by making American realize the steel corporation’s selfish acts and enraging Americans against the them.

Many immigrants are worried about being different because of where they come from, what their beliefs is, the language that they speak, or even their family and cultural characteristics. Even moving away from their parents may be a reason why they do not get along with the other students. “Speaking of that, a lot of people would say there would have to have problems understanding the differences between "cultural homogenization" and "cultural organization," correlated to the minorities.” The governments are afraid with the way students get along with immigrant. Although the moving of cultural, religious knowledge, and values of the first generation of children born in minority states has become a difficulty, that is important to intelligent groups, and an issue of

Also shared in the article, are the views of a professor at Brown University named Jin Li. She states that Asians have their own worries with their students. Li says that Asian educators present that their pupils are like robots, being uncreative and lacking individuality. While given the intense workload at school, the children may not be creating their own beliefs and views of things. The bar has been set high, and the competitiveness of the students pushes them to be alike to one another. Thus resulting in similarity among the

Learners in urban schools face a myriad of challenges ranging from poverty, poor health, to family instability. For this reason, multiculturalism theme is crucial in promoting equality for these learners. Multiculturalism theme is a positive and significant achievement for the American public education (Holland). In particular, learners are taught how to appreciate cultural diversity in the school. This not only promotes cohesion but more so improves cooperation between learners from different cultural backgrounds. For instance, in urban district schools, multicultural policies and practices have become important in enhancing equality for the majority minority in public schools (Holland). Therefore, multicultural education eradicates prejudice and racism, builds interaction and cohesion between various races, creates cultural tolerance, and eradicates cultural

for unifying, it brings people from the same ethnic group together and to have pride in your country. For disunifying, is it could start problems for different ethnic groups. The Australian empire contained lots of different ethnic groups. It's eventually broke into many different nation-states, nationalism broke this empire up. Nationalism also broke up the Russian empire. The Ottoman Empire controlled many different ethnic groups. The empire broke apart after World War I.

In the Federal Constitution, article 10 is the key to the second part of the Constitution. Here are some basic liberties we have set up recently. In general, Article 10 relates only to the standards, controls and restrictions that Malaysians have the right to independently publish, collect and evaluate. As a native, we are lucky to say what we need. However, we have the same rights, but article 10 (2) (a) (b) (c) clearly states the right of parliament to impose

Well, I think the question of me for not understanding the Malays did not rise at all, by my association with the Malays for the past 55 years since primary one. Did I NOT mention that the Sultan did voice out in defense of the people, especially the Johoreans as in the Muslim-only Launderette case? But what I inclined to emphasize was that ‘MOST’ of the issues the Sultan touched and handled were political influenced and motivated which many may not be aware of and failed to see, but simply jumped into a cheering wagon that was intelligently and strategically placed. *There have been so much of back-scene dealings which are engaged in the dark that those who know about them are fearful to reveal and to even make a comment about it in the social media*. For your info, I am telling the *above* only here, not anywhere else.

Gollnick and Chinn describe how multicultural education is a beneficial way of getting teachers and students to understand other cultures, and a way of disregarding hegemony in academics, by promoting equality and harmony between cultures. “Multicultural education is a concept that acknowledges the important role of diversity in the lives of many students and their family and builds on it to promote equality and social justice.”(Gollnick, Chinn) Teachers ensure that their diverse students are given the same access to educational benefits, and work to assist diverse students who are struggling. “When educators are given the

Nationalism is a unifying force, but it can also be an disunifying force. Nationalism is identified as pride in your nation and pride in your ethnic group.

For this paper, a comparison between my culture; the Indian culture; specifically the Hindu culture and the culture of the largest ethnic group in Malaysia; the Malay

Malaysia is a unique country. It is made up of multi-ethnic group who are living in harmony. Conflict among ethnic group is rare and even if conflict occurs, is not to the extent of destroying the country. In fact, it is the diversity that drives the development of the country and makes this country colourful. Malaysia has been recognized by the world as a model for other plural societies. The concept of ‘unity in diversity’ is always insisted by the leaders. The concept is now supported with the ‘1 Malaysia’ concept which is introduced by the current Prime Minister. The Malaysian government is always put efforts to ensure the