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This 3 page paper discusses the connection between immigrant trends and the criticism of multicultural education in the media. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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media is beginning to criticize multicultural education. This paper explores the question of whether or not there is a connection between current immigration trends and the current criticism of multicultural
education being voiced by the media. Discussion It seems intuitively obvious that there would be no need for multicultural education if our society were not also multicultural, so in a
sense the question answers itself. Yes, the criticism of the current multicultural system must be connected somehow to immigrant trends. Perhaps it would be useful to find out what current
immigrant trends are, and then seeing how they tie together with the critics. Those critics who dislike multicultural education argue that it "erodes the nations sense of a unifying cultural
heritage and substitutes political correctness for enduring academic values as a criterion for deciding questions about curricula, methods, and aims" (Milligan, 1999). We should stop for a moment to look
at that statement, and ask, does the U.S. in fact have a "unifying cultural heritage"? The answer must be no, it does not; its people have come from every country
on Earth to settle here, so if it does have a cultural heritage, that heritage must be multicultural almost be definition. However, "multicultural education" seems to defy accurate description.
Although there are "serious and substantial philosophical differences between multiculturalists and their critics," much of the confusion lies, at least in part, in the fact that there is no agreement
about "what multicultural education is" (Milligan, 1999). Because the idea is ambiguous, critics can get away with setting up "multiculturalist straw men" that are easy to knock down again (Milligan,
1999). The straw men become targets for "easy criticism" and they enable defenders "to rally supporters of their views against the racist and patriarchal status quo" (Milligan, 1999). If,
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