Monday, September 27, 2010

Ignorance about Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is made up of three parts. Multi means "having many." Culture means "the way of life of a certain people in a certain time." Ism means "the belief" or "the act or result of." So multiculturalism means the act of having many different ways of life of different people. There is no bias to this at all. This is straight forward; there is no debate. Wait a minute, all these authors either have a biased opinion or are writing about biased opinions. One writes about how wrong some people are for trying to teach history that's not from a certain point of view. History is history. This is not a point of view. History is about exactly what happened, not how somebody feels about something that has happened. Multiculturalism is about people that have different ways of life or different backgrounds living together in a close area. It's about getting along with all these cultures not just about making one seem the most important. I'm getting tired of listening to the way people feel instead of the things are. Maybe if people would look at the large picture of the world instead of just looking in their own corner they might get an idea of the facts not just their opinions.

1 comment:

  1. More commentary needed to make your response truly "reflective." Why do you say what you say? Be specific with some details rather than just telling us about your "emotional" response such as you are "getting tired of listening to the way people feel." Detail some examples to support your own "feelings" next time. Case in point-talk about a specific historical happening that illustrates your commentary.

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