The topic of multiculturalism has always been a subject for many debates, describing the cultural and ethnic diversity of a nation. Multiculturalism directly relates to the people in the United States, and even more specifically to the problem of maintaining it in different countries.
United States of America is a multicultural and multiethnic country where people from different parts of the world have chosen to live. The immigrants who came to settle here carried with them their various backgrounds of culture, ethnic origin, values and beliefs.
For most part of America's history the country's doors were open to the tired, the poor, for the people who simply wanted a better life. Coming from different countries, races and religions, they were driven by the desire and hope of finding new opportunities, the promise land that accomplishes everybody’s dreams.
It is important to learn the aspects of the American multiculturalism in order to find the best way to live harmoniously within the multitude of cultures that characterizes this country. Therefore, people need to understand that they need to have their own identity, to be independent and at the same time interdependent with the others. They also have to realize that the others are different individuals, with different cultural background than theirs and once they understand this fact they will be able to find more place for tolerance, for acceptance. This will lead to a better communication and to a peaceful and harmonious life in the multicultural society, which is for the benefit of the entire humanity.
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Good points here. Sometimes I think people forget that we are a multicultural country and, instead, want to take us back to very fundamentalist beginnings in which they think life was better back then. I really wonder about that, especially knowing what I do about America's own sordid past.
I'll have to research this more, but the debate to go back toward a single cultural construct is a desire for many Americans, sadly. They call this "values," yet those values can discriminate against people who are not like them for any of a variety of reasons. I guess we still have quite a lot to learn!
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