Disuniting of America Multicul
The Disuniting of America Reflections on a Multicultural Society By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.After reading the book than Shlesinger realizes, I have to say that it was interesting and admit that I agree with most of the views about multicultural society and multicultural education in US. Its discusses the movement in America to disaggregate our nation into ethnic and gender subgroups. I will give a brief summary of each chapter of what the author, Arthur M. says in his book. In the first chapter of this book, "A new Race" the author explain the time that emigrants from different part of the world came to United State, the beginning of a new society and the conflict that emerge between them. Schlesinger explains some background of the beginning of this country and the mixing of people as the major conflict of the century. The author views US as a new world cause of the wide amount of immigrants with different ethnicity and distinctive traditions living in the same nation. He gives us example of what people had to do to become "Americans."Emigrants from southern and eastern Europe claim the idea of the melting pot. Most ethnics, whites and non whites, saw themselves prim
History is indispensable for nations and groups in the process of making themselves: what they are today, the roots of their personalities and traditions. We all together contribute to the enrichment of the culture and to build what US is today. In the book the author included a black student at Central Michigan University who comments that "Certain activities are labeled white and black" p. not only what they have done, but also a reflection of what they can do, and and what they can become. American history was shaped more than anything else by British traditions and culture. How can be this possible? The answer of this important question is through the education. American history was long written in the interest of the white Anglo -Saxon Protestant (WASP) . It need to be focus more in what we all have in common, what the nation has achieve together and the promising future. I believe that the new curriculum can be successful if it do not judge in a negative way what happen in the past. CHAPTER 3In the third chapter " The Battle of the Schools" the author start to explain some problems that a new curriculum would bring. As an historian he suggest that trends in education and history fragment society. Schlesinger criticized the history manipulation by the historians, which unrecognize minority groups existence and contributions. Rather than that it does more for whites.
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