Multiculturalism portrays a society in which many different cultures live together as a whole. Many people agree with different diversities being in a community other seem to think quite the opposite. I agree with different cultures, religions, languages and traditions all around a society. I believe every person from a different culture, gender, color, race should be treated equally and express where they come from and who they are.
One of the reasons why I agree with multiculturalism being express is the way people think about someone’s race. In the article “Just Walk on by” the author talks about his experiences when he was just only a twenty-two-year-old who arrived in Chicago. One of his first experiences was coming across a “woman-white”, he describes how he was just having a night walk when he just sees her and there’s distance between them. “She cast back a worried glance. To her, the youngish black man a broad sic feet two inches with a beard…. hands shoved into the pockets of a military jacket seemed menacingly close” (Staples 1). He notices how she kept looking back quickly a few times and she just starts to pick her pace quickly.
It really caught him by surprised how she made it seem he was a robber or even something worse and that made him feel totally out of place, ashamed, offended. One of his other experiences was when he also comes across a couple stopped at a light. “black, white, male, or female hammering down the door locks” (Staples). He felt uncomfortable having to see people would cross to the other side of the street than passing next to him. Staples talks about his experiences being stereotyped by culture people would only think just by looking like his skin color he seemed like he was a bad guy walking through the night.
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Multiculturalism is also a way people can express where they come from and who they truly are. In the article “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” the author talks about how she did not want to stop speaking her language and having to quickly speak the English language completely. “I am my language” (Anzaldua 19). She argues from her pass experiences as a multicultural female living between languages and cultures and having to look down upon being a minority who speaks foreign tongues. She realizes multiculturalism in her society does not quite accept a diverse culture, she feels rejected and criticized for not being able to serve the language that she sees being talked from the people she meets and even from her family and friends.
“If you want to be American, speak ‘American’. If you do not like it go back to Mexico where you belong. I want you to speak English” (Anzaldua 34). Anzaldua is proud of her culture and she refused to let it go because it is a part of where she comes from and how she is. She sees the lack of multiculturalism, she wanted people from different cultures to come together and not to have someone feel like they are not welcome and have to speak certain ways no matter where you are.
In education, multiculturalism is involved in a way, students can learn the diversity and understand the meaning it is having different languages and cultures. In “Multiculturalism: Issues in Counseling and Education” panelists who are speaking talk about multicultural education meaning, how does it help people that have traditional differences interact with each other? How would it help? “I remember a good friend of mine, a white counselor, he was siting years ago in what we call the education act. He was the only white counselor in that whole group of African American, Latinos, American Indian…” (Wing Sue). Guilt obstructs multicultural movement between these groups of people. Knowing that every person is different in a way they speak and manage to only target the white counselor because he is white. They want students to know the meaning of having to see different languages and how it helps them in their education. Students get to learn the diversity of people and how that can help them understand and comprehend what is the meaning of someone’s culture and even get to learn a new language other than their own.
