The Multiculturalism Of The United States

The United States is a multicultural country, because it has unique history background. It contains different races, religions, and cultures. Although USA is a comprehensive country that not has official race, language, and religions, too many different races or cultures in the one society will occur more conflicts, and the people will be more sensitive about racial topic. The prejudice is in people’s subconscious, more and more conflicts are existing in civil society, even the law is equal. For instance, the large groups faced racism such as native Americans (Indians), African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latin Americans; the small groups such as Arab American, Jews, and Gypsies. Thus, I think Americans are becoming less equal.

Over the course of history, South Asians have been mistreated and undermined within American society. This is especially evident after the terror attacks of 9/11 in which Americans shunned its South Asian Population, and reduced them to devastating stereotypes. This has created tension and hostility within the South Asian community, thus pressuring them to being more Americanized, and further creating a fixation towards becoming more white. The obsession with American culture has caused many to conform, leaving behind cultural and religious parts of their identities. It is necessary to explore the history behind the mistreatment of South Asians to understand why the change in identity such as those portrayed with Changez in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Amir in Disgraced have occurred. These main characters of South Asian descent make it is clear that the American dream for immigrants creates a constant struggle between national and transnational identities as racism and hostility are being thrust upon them by American society.

The United States of America is a perfect example of cultural diversity. Starting with the Mayflower landing in Massachusetts Bay in 1620, to the Great Migration from 1915 to 1930, to the continual immigration into our country today this country has seen its culture grow and reshape itself over the years. The culture of the United States is diverse but understanding and appreciating various cultures does not always exist within today’s classroom or in today’s society. Understanding or even defining cultural diversity , identifying the challenges cultural diversity brings, or how to face cultural diversity are all issues educators face in today’s classroom.

According to Takaki and Rattansi, Multiculturalism was a concept that played a vital role in how cultures assembled together in celebration of cultural diversity and pluralism to redress the inequalities all throughout the world. Through the readings, it is easy to identify that multiculturalism made a daily impact on people. The most critical social groups such as race, gender, religion, sexuality, nationality, and disability face the most constraint and enmity on social identity and opportunity. For the longest time, America has referred to multiculturalism as a term that represents a pluralist culture from the immigrant societies. Looking at how Western Europe dealt with it in the past, Multiculturalism is a term that needs to be out-rooted and possibly be taken into account the ‘intercultural’ alternative to handle the correct ethical and political orientation of dealing with 21st century America.

In this article, Black Studies, Multiculturalism and the Future of American Education, they are seen as topics that are been discussed in an in depth view of Manning Marable. However, African American studies as it’s been mentioned are viewed as the study of the culture and traditions of blacks throughout North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil and Latin America. Furthermore Manning argued that there are three related topics that are brought up when questioning what exactly makes up African American studies; first is the deliberation of Black Studies and also what the definition of “multiculturalism” which is in relation to higher education, including the social context that is among in the discussions of racial diversity and pluralism amidst American society as a whole, and the future of race and ethnicity within American society.

The presence of Latinos in the United States challenges the notion of there being only one specific type of American citizen, an English-speaking person who lives only in relation to an "Anglo" heritage. Alongside other minority groups, Latinos tend to believe in the notion that the United States must be made up of one bounded territory, within which people speak a singular language and experience one culture. So, when the Anglo groups are faced with Spanish speaking people who are in touch with their Latino heritage, they feel threatened by the people who can speak both Spanish and English. The response to this sense of threat involves marginalization and the obvious exclusion of Latino groups in the United States. At the

The information that I have learned about diversity in the United States of America has helped me better understand and relate to others in many ways. The world is full of different people and ethnicity, race, creative individuals. Each race has issues to deal with rather it be prejudice and racism. Also during my time in this course I have learned a great deal about myself and I learned how to show more respect to other cultures, I already understood some of the cultures and races we studied this course but to get a better understanding and having to additional research really gave me an open mind and point of view what everyone deals with.

Ask any American how they feel about multiculturalism you are likely to get one of two responses: either a cringe or a smile. Those that cringe will say something along the line of “Multiculturalism is the wrong way to look at things. It separates us by saying that everyone is different instead of saying that we are the same and unifying us.” Those that smile will talk about how great multiculturalism is because they get to see aspects of all different cultures on television and on the radio and they are free to explore all the different things that various cultures have to offer. In actuality, one cannot help but wonder if either of these responses reflects the true meaning of multiculturalism? What do

This essay will discuss Australia’s multicultural policy. It will critically examine the key issues of Australia’s multicultural policy such as limiting racism and aiming for social justice by accepting everyone into Australia. The international federation of library

These are all areas where a systematic mistrust of people from different ethnicities occurs. We have all been fooled by the guise of this sunburnt country, with our history of bigotry, intolerance and obstinacy, that increased migration and the lack of a definitive Australian identity somehow precipitated to the eradication of our forefather’s views.

The United States of America has been categorized by many individuals as the “melting pot.” The nation has acquired this name because is a country that is made up of an extensive variety of people from different cultures. Every single individual whose living in the United States is different in some way or another depending on their culture. This term is primarily used to describe a wide cultural diversity. Besides the meaning of the melting pot, the discrimination in the United States has been an issue regarding race and gender. A book published in 2011 by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo called No Fear: A Whistleblower 's Triumph over Corruption

In today’s world being different is not considered a good thing. Recent movements such as “Black Lives Matter” have sparked a flame to many people that being different is tough. Today, the United States of America is still struggling to accept diversity and individuality towards todays accepted status quo.

The United States is commonly know as a melting pot of nations, in which people from around the world have emigrated to form a homogeneous yet varied culture. Although we come from different ethnic groups, we are usually bound together through our common English language. This becomes an issue, however, when immigrants are not familiar with English and American culture, and instead attempt to keep their own heritage alive. They are often torn between identities through language, the one they speak at home which they are familiar with, and the one they must adhere to in public. This often leads to struggle and conflict on both sides, dealing with different cultures and how people react when assimilation occurs. Because of this, living in the United States often requires us to completely accept only one identity, even though hints of the other may spill over at times.

This book is mainly inspired by the minority report that Schlesinger write for the task force as a review of the New York State social studies syllabus. In this book, the author emphasized the intellectual flaws and political dangers of the ethnocentric recommendations advocated by the majority. With the summarization of the traditionalist position, he leads a contemporary debate about multiculturalism.

The side in opposition to multiculturalism firmly believes that it weakens America by keeping immigrants from adequately assimilating to the core values of America’s Anglo Protestant identity. This side believes that multiculturalism weakens the “social bond” of the United States by denying that immigrants need to assimilate to the language and values of the country’s dominant culture. The rise of non-English speaking communities is seen as a detrimental factor in the goal of achieving unity in American culture. Opponents state that immigrants coming to the United States must always lose their previous culture from their country of origin, to be able to completely assimilate to and fully embrace