Geographically Based Multicultural Education :: social issues

Geographicall(a)y found Multicultural EducationMany Whites in the joined States have a strong sense of ethnic identity that is tied to their immigrant ancestors country of credit line (Italian the Statesns, Irish Americans, Swedish Americans) or to their experience in this country (New England Yankees, midwestern Hoosiers, Appalachians, and so on). at that place are many subgroups within the White experience, alone ...many United States Whites with a strong sense of ethnic identity do not have a strong sense of racial identity. Indeed, ...many Whites feign their Whiteness for granted to the extent that they do not consciously gestate about it. Nevertheless, their identity as members of the White group in the United States has a profound impact on their lives. White Racial individuality Development in the United States by Rita Hardiman in Race, Ethnicity, and Self identity in Multicultural Perspective, edited by Elizabeth Pathy Salett and Diane R. Koslow (Washington, DC NMCI P ublications, 1994). Among the challenges that face all Americans is to explore race and to educate their children about its impact in society. America is the melting pot of society and the most diverse nation in the world. Making it seem from the media that flashes pictures upon our retinas almost everyday. In reality, we live our lives in more and more homogenized communities composed of single races. Many people never show or are taught the difference that divide and bring us together. There needs to be a budge in the way biography is shown to children in America, including whom is a part of it and how it is taught. We need to create an environment that promotes a geographically based multicultural education. In school our children have been historically educated and taught history, epitomized by the glorification, or at least passing university extension to Christopher Columbus atrocities in the Americas. There is no conspiracy to neglect others views and the hardships of hi story. quite the European dominance that forms the basis for the general American culture manifests itself in skewed views of history. The dominate societal segment always writes the text, but the puzzle now is that, whiten America, no longer controls the culture as overmuch as it did. As other populations of people grow, their side of history is added to the texts. This change in education started back in the thirties as white students examined their cultural heritage. As the non-Anglo Saxon population of whites came into power and position, they also cute their heritages to be explained and glorified.