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This 3 page paper analyzes the book, The Intercultural campus by Greg Tanaka.Examples given from the text, main points summarized. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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sort of diversity recognition and diversity building activities. Greg Tanaka in his book, The Intercultural Campus, takes a look at this phenomena and analyzes whether these attempts are being successful
in their goal to promote tolerance, or if they fall short of the mark. Originally, Tanaka states, multiculturalism was an attempt to add those voices which had remained silenced
for so many years, but in doing so, administrations went overboard and ended up alienating a whole other segment of the campus, namely the European American. His main point in
the book is that diversity is necessary and needed, that it adds a richness to the students lives, but that one cannot simply throw together the ingredients and hope to
make soup. One of the interesting case studies that he mentions is the case of Del Rey College. Its campus had been marked by racial tension for many years.
An eight hundred thousand dollar grant was awarded to Del Rey in order to conduct research into the problem and how the campus might best integrate those alienated segments, turning
Del Rey into the first truly diverse campus in America(Tanaka 2003). What was found, via surveys, interviews and observation, was that a majority of the students on campus believed
that minority groups would assimilate into the larger American Culture on campus. Many of the European Americans declared that there werent any racial tensions or diversity problems on campus because
various ethnicities were represented on campus. Likewise, the administration were just as guilty of this assumption. When they had the chance to hire minorities in their departments, most department heads
hired foreign scholars instead of minorities residing within the United States. This equated the term minority to foreign. This illustrated the mindset and the trend that the researchers were going
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