Cultural Diversity for Me
Janice Cummings Janice Cummings Abstract
Cultural Diversity is what we have in the town that I have lived all my life. It not a very big place central located between Dallas Texas and Fort Worth Texas.
Abstract
Cultural Diversity is what we have in the town that I have lived all my life. It not a very big place central located between Dallas Texas and Fort Worth Texas.
Cultural Diversity for me as an Individual
My town is very diverse and we have a mixture of a lot of different people that live in this town. When I grew up it was not racially equal and we had a whole lot of adjusting to do, we did and I think for this moment we are doing just fine.
The face of America is changing –becoming more diverse and complex than at any time in our history. We are no longer a white-black society struggling to integrate two major groups of people who have been in this country for nearly 400 years, but multicultural, multi ethinic society in which newcomers are arriving in record numbers every day . The 1980s will be remembered as a period of one of the highest levels of immigration in our nation’s histoty. Some ten million persons immigrated to the United States in the last decade, a number as great as that of the peak decade, 1900 to 1910.
It is possible to study the individual culture of the ancestors of each group represented in America ? That depends on how superficial we are willing to be. I suppose it is possible to develop a dictionary of cultural literacy of every major group and teach children to memorize a few facts and dates about each. Given our current success with children’s learning to locate Arkansas on a map of the United States or China on a map, of the world, or tell in what half a century the Civil War was fought, or to name more than four presidents of the United States. I don’t know what hope there is that such a project would have any lasting benefit. But there are other problems with this approach as well. Who
Cultural Diversity is what we have in the town that I have lived all my life. It not a very big place central located between Dallas Texas and Fort Worth Texas.
Abstract
Cultural Diversity is what we have in the town that I have lived all my life. It not a very big place central located between Dallas Texas and Fort Worth Texas.
Cultural Diversity for me as an Individual
My town is very diverse and we have a mixture of a lot of different people that live in this town. When I grew up it was not racially equal and we had a whole lot of adjusting to do, we did and I think for this moment we are doing just fine.
The face of America is changing –becoming more diverse and complex than at any time in our history. We are no longer a white-black society struggling to integrate two major groups of people who have been in this country for nearly 400 years, but multicultural, multi ethinic society in which newcomers are arriving in record numbers every day . The 1980s will be remembered as a period of one of the highest levels of immigration in our nation’s histoty. Some ten million persons immigrated to the United States in the last decade, a number as great as that of the peak decade, 1900 to 1910.
It is possible to study the individual culture of the ancestors of each group represented in America ? That depends on how superficial we are willing to be. I suppose it is possible to develop a dictionary of cultural literacy of every major group and teach children to memorize a few facts and dates about each. Given our current success with children’s learning to locate Arkansas on a map of the United States or China on a map, of the world, or tell in what half a century the Civil War was fought, or to name more than four presidents of the United States. I don’t know what hope there is that such a project would have any lasting benefit. But there are other problems with this approach as well. Who