Reflection of America’s Cultures America is a country with exceptional cultural diversity. Ji-Yeon Yuh’s article contains the perspective that America is made of not one, not two, but many cultures. Her article suggests that white Americans were taught to believe that they are superior to the black or Asian Americans. I agree with Yuh, who believes that racial and ethnical disparity in America can be eliminated by educating our children about other cultures. As one of the greatest Asian American educators and essayists, Ji-Yeon Yuh, in her editorial titled “Let’s Tell the Story of All America’s Cultures,” published in the Philadelphia Inquirer (June 30, 1991), a history teacher at Northwestern University, Yuh addresses the American history contributes of white men and argues that although America contains many ethnic groups, they do not exist in its history books. She supports her claim by saying that history books were wrong because they never told the whole truth, by describing her own experience as a young immigrant learning about American history in elementary school and by learning about the good and the bad parts of America’s history in educational system. Her purpose is to explain how America does not consist of just one race, but many races, in order to inform the readers that America was built by many people from different countries and is truly a multicultural country. Based on Yuh’s argument, I will show how her claims are true and remarkable modern. I agree with Yuh that multicultural education is crucial to children because it helps them to have more logical understanding of the existence of ethnic diversity in the history and cultures. I agreement with the thoughts of Ji-Yeon Yuh, that racism is a political issue in the United States. It is political because the US government has always downplayed it. It also can be described as a moral issue; this is where the personalities of the white people come into play. Yuh describes the
Cited: Ji-Yeon, Yuh. “Let’s Tell the Story of All America’s Cultures.” Philadelphia Inquire 30 June. 1991. Print.