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Reading Purpose: This article describes how the study of multiculturalism started and some of the differing viewpoints.

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What is Multiculturalism?

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By Gregory Jay- University of Wisconsin- Madison

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1. Who did we learn about in school today?

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Like most words, "multiculturalism" needs to be understood from both an historical and a conceptual perspective. Historically, "multiculturalism" came into wide public use in the West during the early 1980s in the context of public school curriculum reform. Specifically, proponents argued that the content of classes in history, literature, social studies, and other areas reflected what came to be called a "Eurocentric" and male bias. Few if any women or people of color, or people from outside the Western European tradition, appeared prominently in the curriculums of schools and colleges in the United States. This material absence was also interpreted as a value judgment that reinforced unhealthy sexist, ethnocentric and even racist attitudes.

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Observers noted that teaching and administrative staffs in schools were also overwhelmingly white and/or male (whiteness being pervasive at the teaching level, maleness at the administrative level, reflecting the politics of gender and class as well as race in the educational system). Eventually parallel questions were raised about the ethno-racial or cultural biases of other institutions, such as legislatures, government agencies, corporations, religious groups, private clubs, etc. Each of these has in turn developed its own response and policies regarding diversity and multiculturalism.

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Multiculturalism also is directly related to global shifts of power, population, and culture in the era of globalization and "postcolonialism," as nations around the world establish independence in the wake of the decline of Western empires (whether European, Soviet, or American). Globalization transformed previously homogeneous cities or regions into complex meeting grounds for different ethnic, racial, religious, and national groups, challenging the political and cultural system to accommodate this diversity. Many of the previously homogeneous nation-states of Europe then experienced an influx of immigration by people of color and different cultural and religious beliefs from the areas those nations had once ruled as colonies. The children of these new immigrants, like those before them, presented fresh questions to teachers who were unfamiliar with their languages, belief systems, customs, and ways of life. How these children were to be educated, and how the curriculum was to be reformed to meet their needs, became matters of continued debate.

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Alan Fernandez Alan Fernandez (Feb 26 2021 12:35PM) : Multiculturalism is a consequence of globalization. Without globalization different groups would not have met.
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2. Is there any justice in this world?

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The concept of “multiculturalism” also has a history rooted in theories of human rights, democracy, human equality, and social justice. The concern to create a more "culturally diverse" curriculum owed much to the intellectual and social movements associated with the U.S. Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s. These included Black Power, La Raza/Chicano Power, the American Indian Movement and the Women's Liberation movement, each of which challenged the norms and effects of educational policy. Perhaps more importantly, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) --- which outlawed explicit school segregation --- led to the admission of large numbers of non-white students to public and some private schools (also occasioning the "white flight" that has largely succeeded in re-segregating schools in most major cities). Teachers and school administrators then saw a student body with very different faces. This demographic cultural diversity was accelerated by postcolonial immigration from non-Western European nations during the last two decades -- especially from Mexico, Latin America, and Asia. This pattern was largely caused by progressive arguments leading to the liberalization of U.S. immigration laws in the mid-1960s, which had formerly used ethnic and racial bias to restrict non-European immigration. Multiculturalism thus also denotes an approach to “culturally relevant pedagogy” that takes into account the cultural diversity in the classroom, the social conditions of the students, and the differences in their background knowledge and learning styles.

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3. Melt or get out of the pot!

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Wendy Kerzman Wendy Kerzman (Jan 14 2021 11:08AM) : This implies that we have 2 choices.
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victoria marin victoria marin (Jan 19 2021 11:11AM) : it is interesting how the whole idea of "hybrid names" came about.
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Mr Walt Bates Mr Walt Bates (Jan 21 2021 11:01AM) : school more

school being a place where all cultures can intetherslearn about oract and

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The historical emergence of “multiculturalism” as an ideology brings with it many complicated conceptual problems, causing a rich debate over what multiculturalism is or should mean. America's traditional conception of itself as a "melting pot" of diverse peoples joined in a common New World culture has been challenged by those multiculturalists who consider the "melting pot" metaphor a cover for oppressive assimilation. To them, the only way you were able to melt into the pot is by assimilating -- becoming similar --- to the dominant or "hegemonic" white culture. The United States’s Naturalization Act of 1789 declared that only “white” immigrants could eventually become citizens. In fact, admission to the socio-cultural pot of acceptance was restricted at first only to certain European ethnic groups (the English, Dutch, German, French, and Scandinavian), so that others such as the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, the Greeks, and the Slavs all experienced discrimination in the process. Hotels, clubs, and housing developments routinely advertised ethnic discrimination against these groups, just as Jim Crow segregation was seen in the ubiquitous “white” and “colored” signs placed on water fountains, waiting rooms, theaters, and parks.

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Aliyyah Salam Abdullah Aliyyah Salam Abdullah (Jan 14 2021 11:14AM) : This paragraph is about how multiculturalism is a complicated issue and it talks about how assimilation in the past was expected but also could be seen as oppressive.
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Aliyyah Salam Abdullah Aliyyah Salam Abdullah (Jan 14 2021 11:08AM) : Multiculturalism is problematic
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Wendy Kerzman Wendy Kerzman (Jan 14 2021 11:10AM) : What is oppressive assimilation? Isn't it okay to assimilate to make it easier to be involved in the new culture?
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Aliyyah Salam Abdullah Aliyyah Salam Abdullah (Jan 14 2021 11:10AM) : Melting pot is the idea that people come to the US and then the assimilate like a pot of chili.
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Ethan Eison Ethan Eison (Jan 20 2021 6:29PM) : The melting pot is a good thing. It shows that more than one culture can effect a society and create a melting pot. Each culture melts into a single one. more

I disagree with the multiculturalists who call the melting pot an Opressive Assimilation. No one is forced to do anything, they just have to pick up a few things here and there in order to survive and have a good life. No one makes people from different cultures learn how they learn, think how they think, eat how they eat they decide that for themselves. People always think that in order to live you have to do what everyone else does. You don’t have to do that, even remotely. Live your own life, and don’t let other influence the way you live and act.

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Jonathan Grote Jonathan Grote (Jan 21 2021 10:53AM) : It's interesting how America traditionally saw itself as a melting pot rather than a salad bowl.
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Wendy Kerzman Wendy Kerzman (Jan 14 2021 11:11AM) : Okay I guess I can see how that's problematic... not everyone wants to adopt white culture.
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Alan Fernandez Alan Fernandez (Feb 26 2021 12:50PM) : This evidence is nearly 300 years old.
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Alan Fernandez Alan Fernandez (Feb 26 2021 12:53PM) : This act was created almost 300 years ago.
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Alan Fernandez Alan Fernandez (Feb 26 2021 12:56PM) : This act is almost 300 years old
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Many multiculturalists reject acculturation and assimilation in principle, as violations of human rights, as well as out of a recognition of historical truth. “Critical Multiculturalism” became a movement insisting that American society has never been only “white,” but always in fact multiracial and diverse. The Native Americans had been here for thousands of years, the Spanish were the first settlers, Africans arrived as early as 1620, Mexicans became citizens by the thousands in 1848 when the U.S. conquered half of Mexico in the War of 1848, and Chinese and Japanese emigrated to labor here throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Recovering the memory of this history, critical multiculturalism seeks to preserve distinctly different ethnic, racial, or cultural communities without melting them into a common culture. Thus this form of multiculturalism is also called “cultural pluralism,” as it envisions a society with many different cultures living equally and side-by-side. Critical multiculturalism critiques the former culture of white supremacy, a culture of legalized bigotry and discrimination, and so advocate an emphasis on the separate characteristics and virtues of particular cultural groups.

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Aliyyah Salam Abdullah Aliyyah Salam Abdullah (Jan 14 2021 11:22AM) : I think this is an important statement
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Aliyyah Salam Abdullah Aliyyah Salam Abdullah (Jan 14 2021 11:25AM) : The other side of assimilation is this idea of cultural pluralism which is the idea that America is inately multicultural and that all cultures should be able to exist distinctly from each other.
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Alan Fernandez Alan Fernandez (Feb 26 2021 12:41PM) : I agree with each culture maintaining differences, as long as we accept all cultures and don't discriminate upon one.
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4. Islam, Immigration, and the “Failure of Multiculturalism”?

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Paris Turner Paris Turner (Jan 19 2021 11:35AM) : I dont think a whole culture and religion should be viewed negatively because of one or two people ,like don’t blame the whole culture and religious group, blame that one or two people
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Mr. Quentin Cashaw Mr. Quentin Cashaw (Jan 14 2021 11:39AM) : I think the 9/11 was the point where people forgot that separation religions and cultures has always been a key factor in America. It just took a traumatic event to awaken all that hate that minorities have felt for generations

In the second decade of the 21st century, debates over multiculturalism and cultural pluralism center less on the issues of race prominent in the late 20th century, and more on religion and immigration. The “melting pot” idealism of cultural pluralism appeared challenged by seemingly unbridgeable and sometimes violent religious differences. These differences became sharply public and international in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York and Washington, when Saudi Arabian hijackers avowing an Islamic jihad against the West flew planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, precipitating a reaction that included wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bombings by Muslims in Europe likewise started a debate over whether immigrants from Muslim countries were capable of assimilation.

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victoria marin victoria marin (Jan 14 2021 11:42AM) : It’s interesting to me that the whole concept of religion really hasn’t changed. Like a lot of Americans still view other religions outside of the US as dangerous.
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Student Tayhlor Williams Student Tayhlor Williams (Jan 14 2021 11:49AM) : assimilation [Edited] more
although they were hijacked by others doesn’t really determine that other people in different countries are capable of that
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Ethan Eison Ethan Eison (Jan 20 2021 6:24PM) : The main idea is that a stereo type of the Islamic faith caused a major divide within the American culture. more

This section of the article is a bit intriguing. It doesn’t mean that there is no room for people of Islamic faith, it means that with the current society and previous events which involved people of Islamic fate created a division between society. It’s reference of 9/11 is a major stereo type that most people can’t look over. Hence why the Islamic faith is usually associated with terrorism.

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Trinity Schmuck Trinity Schmuck (Jan 14 2021 11:33AM) : This was the real start of the separation due to religion in the US. im also not sure what avowing means. [Edited]
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Aliyyah Salam Abdullah Aliyyah Salam Abdullah (Jan 14 2021 11:39AM) : I think you have an important point. This idea of religion as a separation point was somewhat new. Avow means that they declared strongly.
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Diyontae Dallas Diyontae Dallas (Jan 14 2021 11:36AM) : Basically the sentence is trying to give a argument but I don't think just because one bad event we should throw the salad bowl idea out because I dont think you should let go of your religion/beliefs because of a group of bad people.
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Robert Brook Robert Brook (Jan 15 2021 11:18AM) : I think this sentence shows a religious separation in the United States. more

I believe that 9/11 was an event that had started a religious separation in the United States. I think that you don’t have to dislike someone based on their religious beliefs, because not all of the people in that religion are “bad” or “good” like others.

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On February 5, 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron set off an international controversy with a speech at the Munich security conference in which he condemned “Islamist extremism” and in part blamed its rise in England to “state multiculturalism”: “Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism,“ he said, “we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and apart from the mainstream. We’ve failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. We’ve even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run completely counter to our values.” The Islamic communities of Britain have been a breeding ground for “terrorists,” according to Cameron, and to the extent that these communities do not assimilate to the majority culture’s ideology of “universal human rights” and secular democracy, Cameron claimed, their separatism shows the failure of multiculturalism. Critics of Cameron’s speech saw it as lending support to “Islamophobia” and as downplaying poverty, racism, and discrimination as causes of dissatisfaction among immigrants and communities of color.

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Cody Barday Cody Barday (Jan 14 2021 11:39AM) : This is when they made more of a salad bowel then the melting pot.
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Victor Huerta Victor Huerta (Jan 14 2021 12:01PM) : By cultures being separate, the prime minister believes that to be a failure. Since the radical culture were never introduced to the ideology of "universal human rights" and "secular democracy".
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idk dent power idk dent power (Jan 19 2021 10:30AM) : islamic more

what did the extremist do

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andreas keaton andreas keaton andreas keaton andreas keaton (Jan 14 2021 11:37AM) : I feel like this whole sentence is meaning to say that everyone is trying so hard to fit in and be like one another which is hurting the society. Also this will cause no growth because there are thinking a lot which will cause the society to decrease.
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Jonathan Grote Jonathan Grote (Jan 21 2021 12:20PM) : I think people are trying to find their role in society but feel like an outsider, due to the fact that they don't match up to everyone else.
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Roy Barchitta Roy Barchitta (Jan 19 2021 6:32PM) : my thoughts more

I feel like our soon-to-be former president did not show much effort in including low-income communities into the discussion and placing their problems higher up on the priorities list.

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Sterling Eason Sterling Eason (Jan 14 2021 11:48AM) : i more

i feel like once something bad happens, they point fingers to the entire ethnic group instead of the individual.

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Jonathan Grote Jonathan Grote (Jan 21 2021 12:22PM) : I think that because it has formed a stereotype, people think negatively when they see that ethnic group.
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On July 22, 2011 a Norwegian fundamentalist Christian terrorist, Anders Breivik, launched an attack in Norway in which he slaughtered over seventy young people at a youth camp as well as bombing parts of downtown Oslo. Breivik’s online manifesto used language similar to that of Cameron and other right-wing leaders as he condemned “multiculturalism” and the immigration of non-white, non-Christians to Europe. Debate in the aftermath led to reflections suggesting that toleration of right-wing anti-multiculturalism was itself the real “failure” as Europe struggled, like the United States, to construct societies that embraced a diversity of racial and ethnic groups.

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In the United States, immigration has always been a powerful political issue, as “nativists” have periodically warned against the flow of new foreigners, from the Irish and Italians and Jews to the Mexicans and the Hmong. From the 1980s onward, anti-immigration sentiment increasingly focused on Latinos, especially Mexicans, although many individuals targeted in such campaigns were in fact Mexican Americans whose ancestors had been citizens dating back to the 19th century. Most of the tension arose out of an economic contradiction: on the one hand, American businesses and households relied on the low-wage and non-unionized labor of Latinos, particularly the undocumented; on the other hand, the decline in job opportunities experienced by many in the majority culture led them to blame immigration and to call for stronger measures against it, including border fences and police document checks. While some claimed that Hispanics were refusing, unlike white ethnics, to assimilate, bilingualism was no stronger among Latino communities than it had been historically with Poles and Germans in similar urban settings. Meanwhile American majority culture continued to borrow from and incorporate the food, song, literature, and art from South of the Border.

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Kaeden Lee Kaeden Lee (Jan 15 2021 10:58AM) : Americans blamed Latino immigration for the decline in job opportunities, and were mad about it, yet still take from Mexican culture. [Edited]
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Ethan Eison Ethan Eison (Jan 20 2021 6:26PM) : Most Americans aren't even natives. The Americans pushed out the native Americans and took the land for themselves. more

It kills me to see it when someone references modern day Americans as “Natives” like they were the people who originally lived in the are. The American people are descendants of people who decided to take land that wasn’t theirs to begin with.

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Matthew Hamilton Matthew Hamilton (Jan 14 2021 11:40AM) : I could see why they would try to warn us about it. more

I can kind of see why they would warn us about it but you can’t comment on a entire group because of one person.

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Jackson Harris Jackson Harris (Jan 14 2021 11:40AM) : My thought more

This section relates to how the idea of immigration is now and specific reasons as to why people are against it.

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Roy Barchitta Roy Barchitta (Jan 15 2021 11:14AM) : I feel like America continues to borrow from other cultures to this day without much integration.

5. Is identity political?

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One problem with certain strands of multiculturalism is their reliance on "identity politics." "Identity politics" refers to the tendency to define one's political and social identity and interests purely in terms of some group category: race, ethnicity, class, gender, nationality, religion, etc. Identity politics became more popular after the 1960s for many of the same reasons that multiculturalism did. The critique of America's "common culture" led many people to identify with a particular group, rather than with the nation --- a nation, after all, whose policies they believed had excluded or oppressed them. People increasingly called themselves by hybrid names: Native-Americans, African-Americans, Latino-Americans, Asian-Americans, Gay-Americans, etc., in an explosion of hyphenation.

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Sterling Eason Sterling Eason (Jan 19 2021 11:18AM) : Is identity politics another name for stereotypes? Seems similar. more
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Matthew Hamilton Matthew Hamilton (Jan 20 2021 7:59PM) : No, they have two different meanings but are kinda alike.
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Andres Vazquez Andres Vazquez (Jan 19 2021 11:26AM) : in my opinion I feel like identity politics help groups us into categories although I feel like that's how conflict and civil wars break out identity shouldn't be political
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idk dent power idk dent power (Jan 19 2021 11:09AM) : i think identity politics refers to what group they place themselves in
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andreas keaton andreas keaton andreas keaton andreas keaton (Jan 19 2021 11:13AM) : In my opinion I feel like identity politics relates to what you are viewed by. Or how others judge you but certain physical traits.
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Wendy Kerzman Wendy Kerzman (Jan 19 2021 11:30AM) : I think the key quote here that helps us better understand Identity Politics is "policies they believed had excluded or oppressed them." How do policies (rules or regulations by the government or organizations) include or exclude people based on identity [Edited]
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Mr Walt Bates Mr Walt Bates (Jan 19 2021 11:17AM) : No one picks their identity politics more

I feel as that ones culture is given to you by your past ancestors and you have no choice in the things you see growing up.

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ms ajla sulejmani ms ajla sulejmani (Jan 19 2021 11:17AM) : I feel as though this means that many different groups can not identify themselves as a "Common American" because the standards of a common american are not as lenient, to their culture so they feel as so they must break off to a different group.
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Cody Barday Cody Barday (Jan 19 2021 11:20AM) : I do not understand what critique means But I think it has something to do with like a theory
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Student Tayhlor Williams Student Tayhlor Williams (Jan 20 2021 9:58AM) : I think this means that it's basically a trend now to identify yourself with other groups, that are more so out of your nation or has absolutely nothing to deal with it.
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Jackson Harris Jackson Harris (Jan 19 2021 11:25AM) : Hybrid names can be a good thing more

Hybrid names can be a good way to identify peoples exact decent if they know.

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Kaeden Lee Kaeden Lee (Jan 20 2021 12:07PM) : I feel like hybrid names were used because people didn't want to fully, like we were talking about in class, be completely "melted in" to the American culture. so to keep where they came from, hybrid names were made

This movement for group solidarity did in many cases provide individuals with the resources to defend their interests and express their values, resources that as disparate individuals they could not possibly attain. As the American economy began to decline in the late 20th century, the scramble for a piece of the shrinking pie increased the tendency of people to band together in groups that together might have enough power to defend or extend their interests. American society is now often seen as a battleground of special-interest groups, many of them defined by the racial, ethnic, or cultural identity of their members. Hostility between these groups as they compete for scarce resources is inevitable. In defense of identity politics, others point out that these divisions between cultural groups are less the voluntary decisions of individuals than the product of discrimination and bigotry in the operation of the economy and the social institutions. It is these injustices that divide people up by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, etc., privileging the dominant group and subordinating the rest, they claim.

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Victor Huerta Victor Huerta (Jan 19 2021 11:16AM) : Due to individuals feeling outed and opressed from the nation... naturally formed groups of like minded individuals in order to express and defend their interests. [Edited]
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Paris Turner Paris Turner (Jan 19 2021 11:15AM) : When they say shrinking pie can you elaborate more on what its meaning is? My understanding of it is partial.
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Multiculturalism Alyssa Bagley Multiculturalism Alyssa Bagley (Jan 19 2021 11:39AM) : this implies that everyone is looked at based on their race or ethnics instead of as an individual
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Student Tayhlor Williams Student Tayhlor Williams (Jan 20 2021 9:50AM) : Society now is more focused on groups that Americans rely on to identify themselves, instead of Americans analyzing their identity independently. [Edited]
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Mr. Quentin Cashaw Mr. Quentin Cashaw (Jan 19 2021 11:17AM) : I believe this to be true because the reason why people are so divided is because the majority racial groups are being treated as superior and treat minority racial groups as inferior which has been a problem for generations.

6. Breaking up is hard to do.

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Still, most analysts admit that in practice individuals belong to numerous different groups and have complex socio-cultural identities. The theoretical word for analyzing people in terms of their group affiliations is "subject position." Each person occupies a variety of subject positions -- is positioned socially, economically, and politically -- by virtue of how his or her subjectivity is shaped by group identifications. When we analyze our identities, we can break them up into numerous facets of ourselves, until it seems that we might never be able to put them back together again.

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andreas keaton andreas keaton andreas keaton andreas keaton (Jan 19 2021 11:18AM) : In breaking up is hard to this chapter is meaning to me that no matter which way you go or how many people you have identified there will always be separation and somebody will always have a different identification.
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Andres Vazquez Andres Vazquez (Jan 19 2021 11:29AM) : breaking us up is hard to do we can be categorized for anything being a man being lower class, middle class, high class,gay,straight being up categorized can be really hard to break up into groups when there is many positions.
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Cody Barday Cody Barday (Jan 19 2021 11:24AM) : I do not understand what socio-cultural means
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Diyontae Dallas Diyontae Dallas (Jan 19 2021 11:14AM) : Basically its saying some judge off of social class or race.
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A person may think of herself or be treated at one moment as a woman, at another moment as Asian, at another moment as upper-class, at another moment as elderly, at another moment as Christian, at another moment as a lesbian--each time being either helped or hindered by the identification, depending on the circumstances. The various parts of our cultural identities may not add up to a neat and predictable whole.

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victoria marin victoria marin (Jan 19 2021 11:14AM) : it seems like a lot of people don't indentify as having only one culture.
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Paris Turner Paris Turner (Jan 19 2021 11:28AM) : I feel like this section is saying you maybe treated by what’s on the surface (race ), by what you identify as ,or what you may believe in and it may hinder you in many ways or it maybe of advantage
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Andres Vazquez Andres Vazquez (Jan 19 2021 11:32AM) : we will always be treated differently no matter what circumstances we can either be helped or hindered no-one is perfect and grouping us as a person is nearly impossible with different identifications different circumstances
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Sterling Eason Sterling Eason (Jan 19 2021 11:39AM) : A person may display different traits of their identity when interacting with certain people to avoid being judged.
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idk dent power idk dent power (Jan 19 2021 10:35AM) : i think this sentence is saying that based off how you act and how you hold yourself determines how people will treat you
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victoria marin victoria marin (Jan 19 2021 11:12AM) : it is interesting how the whole idea of "hybrid names" came about.
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Mr. Quentin Cashaw Mr. Quentin Cashaw (Jan 19 2021 11:22AM) : I understand this sentence because of personal experiences, most people treat me with respect as a man and a human being which helps me as a person, but others will treat as a stereotypical black man which hinders me as an American. [Edited]
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ms ajla sulejmani ms ajla sulejmani (Jan 19 2021 11:22AM) : How far can you break yourself up till you start getting confused of what/ who you really are?
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Diyontae Dallas Diyontae Dallas (Jan 19 2021 11:26AM) : Depending on who is around she will be seen as a certain group.
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ms ajla sulejmani ms ajla sulejmani (Jan 19 2021 11:27AM) : Eventually wouldn't she be confused of what she is identified as, I understand that in different circumstances she will be identified as one million different things but how will she know what she can truly stand on and is as a human in society?
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Jackson Harris Jackson Harris (Jan 19 2021 11:31AM) : I agree with this more

People often treat you by the ways that you identify

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Mr Walt Bates Mr Walt Bates (Jan 19 2021 11:40AM) : How people see you because of how your look and what you do. more

This paragraph shows me how stereotypes people have placed on others weight heavily in today’s Society and how people would treat you off of first glance

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Multiculturalism Alyssa Bagley Multiculturalism Alyssa Bagley (Jan 19 2021 11:53AM) : this implies that the way you are being looked at as is based off your actions.
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Multiculturalism Alyssa Bagley Multiculturalism Alyssa Bagley (Jan 19 2021 11:56AM) : this implies that you can be looked at differently based off your actions.
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Kaeden Lee Kaeden Lee (Jan 20 2021 12:13PM) : I think this sentence makes sense because based on your situation, or where you are in the moment, you may think of yourself differently, and be treated differently. its all how other people see you at that moment, and what you think of yourself.
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Matthew Hamilton Matthew Hamilton (Jan 20 2021 8:06PM) : i understand this sentence because most people from hillgrove think i'm a quite person and mean. while people from my other school and in mississippi know me for being the class clown and looking out for people.
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Victor Huerta Victor Huerta (Jan 19 2021 11:21AM) : What I think this sentence is trying to say is that because we separate our identities so much, its basically impossible to identify all at once.
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Student Tayhlor Williams Student Tayhlor Williams (Jan 20 2021 9:54AM) : They're lots of ways we're able to identify ourselves till the point where we can't be identified as just one thing.

Multiculturalism, then, insofar as it groups individuals into categories, may overlook the practical reality that no one lives in just one box. Recent proponents of multiculturalism, indeed, have emphasized the multiculturalism within each individual, as each of us can map our multiplicity through the many points on the “diversity wheel.

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idk dent power idk dent power (Jan 14 2021 11:34AM) : what does it mean when it says culture pluralism
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Aliyyah Salam Abdullah Aliyyah Salam Abdullah (Jan 14 2021 11:38AM) : Cultural pluralism is the idea that everyone should be allowed to have their own distinct culture and that that is in fact American.
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