Cultural Diversity

Cultural Diversity

Introduction

Multiculturalism challenges these notions because it takes phrases like “the common culture” to be, essentially, beach-talk. “The common culture,” in the multi-culturalist view, just enshrines the norms of the dominant group, and thus functions as an enforcer of existing inequalities. This is why multi-culturalist criticism of canonical texts sometimes resembles a witch hunt: the demons of prejudice are being stripped of their “universalist” masks.

To understand cultural pluralism, it is important to understand the concept of assimilation. Assimilation occurs when people of diverse cultures within a society give up their native cultures and embraces the new culture of the larger society.

Discussion and Analysis

Cultural diversity is one of the features representing the U.S tradition. Our country, the world in search of new opportunities was made ??by people who came from around the world. Every day, now the arrival of immigrants from all over the world in the United States is increasing. This issue evolves when various ethnic groups in the United States interact with each other, how they examine whether to maintain its own characteristic or to adopt others.

Many people believe that America is an amalgam of different cultures in which neither dominates or prevails. The metaphor is often used to express this assumption is the "melting pot". The people who come to this country from all over the world brings with a culture that contributes to the mix. The mixture was stirred and heated until they fuse different cultures (Conzen, 2010).

The Ethnic Diversity

Form the Ethnic diversity of the United States; we observed that the population of the United States is striking in its diversity. For example, Latinos and minority ethnic groups (that is to say groups constituting less than 50% of the population and blacks together from non-Hispanic, Asians and Native Americans) had growth rates above that of the entire population. In 1970, these groups accounted for about 16% sets of the population, but by 1998 this share had increased to 27%. In 2007, blacks accounted for 40 million people in the U.S., or 14%.

Assuming that these trends would remain the Census Bureau states that the Latin Americans make up almost half the U.S. population by 2050. Time magazine, meanwhile, announced that in 2056 whites ('' White'' or'' Caucasian'') are minority in the United States. Although futuristic, the projections show that the U.S. will experience a significant expansion of racial and ethnic diversity in the twenty-first cen key. The United States continues to welcome more immigrants than any other country in the world. According to the 2000 census, the U.S. had 31 million people born abroad. This is a remarkable increase of 57% over 1990. These immigrants came from all over the world, but especially the poorest countries where they have held low-paying jobs. Nevertheless, most of their children will live better than their parents to the material plane.

Nationally, the U.S. had 114.1 million people from ethnic minorities, representing 36.6% of the total population, which stood at nearly 312 million people in July ...