Multicultural Matrix and Analysis Worksheet
Instructions:
Part I: Select and identify six groups in the left-hand column. Complete the matrix.
Part II: Write a summary.
Part III: Format references consistent with APA guidelines.
Part I: Matrix What is the group’s history in the United States? What is the group’s population in the United States? What are some attitudes and customs people of this group may practice? What is something you admire about this group’s people, lifestyle, or society?
1. Native American There are many different Native American tribes and each one is unique. Some Native American history is taught in school. We most commonly know of the Sacagawea and how they helped Lewis and …show more content…
African American The first African arrived in united states in 1619 as indentured servant and settled in Jamestown (Virginia). After that more and more African were brought for the purpose of slavery and working labor and they treated as slaver (1). After sometime they could legally raised crops and cattle to purchase their freedom. Africans raised families, marring other African and many time intermarrying with native Americans and English settlers. During the 1770s, they helped rebellious English colonists’ secure American independence by defeating the British in the American revolution. James Armistead who was an African American played a very big role in 1781 Yorktown victory. Prince Whipple and Oliver Cromwell were some other prominent African American who was depicted in the front of the boat in George Washington’s famous 1776 crossing the Delaware portrait. During the American civil war, the American president Abraham Lincoln signed emancipation proclamation and declared under this proclamation that all slave in state which had seceded from the union were free. This is the whole history of African American in united state. The total population of African American in united states is 37,000.000. This is the 12 % of total population of united states. The population of non-Hispanic black is 36,701,103 and the population of black Hispanic is 884, 947. The African American culture is very important in American culture because African American culture affected the …show more content…
Use the following questions to guide your writing:
How has U.S. society used each group’s culture to construct the group identity? How has each group been stereotyped? How accurate are these stereotypes?
How does the social concept of race relate to each group? What prejudice has each group faced?
How do the behavior and thinking patterns of U.S. culture apply to each group, especially regarding class systems and employment?
From Above discussed different ethnic groups, we have learned about Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism teaches us about diversity and differences of cultures and societies and helping us to integrate diverse cultures into the larger society. In multiculturalism, all cultures are respected. Generally multiculturalism is formed when people from many different countries migrate to one place for example United States. Therefore we can say the multiculturalism is the explanation of how different cultural groups construct a diversified society or group identity like United States. We can understand the construction of group identity from above mentioned different ethnic group’s descriptions. The most important advantage of multicultural society is that the labor force are available in diverse. These diversified labor force contribute in country’s