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This 3 page paper discusses why multiculturalism is important, some of the management strategies that can be used, and whether or not they improve the skills of supervisors who use them. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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discusses why multiculturalism is important, some of the management strategies that can be used, and whether or not they improve the skills of supervisors who use them. Discussion The first
question we need to consider is why multiculturalism is important. The answer can be found in an article by Samuel Taylor, who writes that "[O]f all the ways in which
a nation defines itself, few are more important than what it teaches its children about itself" (Taylor, 1992). The history of the United States is one in which many races
and cultures have mingled, yet history continues to be understood almost entirely from the white viewpoint (Taylor, 1992). For most whites, the history of America is one of glorious conquest,
accomplishment and progress, while for non-whites, it is a history of oppression, hatred and as far as Native Americans are concerned, genocide. For whites, the main historical concepts are "inclusion"
and "pluralism"; for most non-whites, "multicultural history is merely a step on the way to an explicitly racial, Afrocentric or Hispanic history. Their goal is separation rather than inclusion" (Taylor,
1992). The "conservative view is that explicitly racial histories are illegitimate" because America, in their view, should be a united country and such histories tend to be divisive (Taylor, 1992).
But they miss the point: America is already divided, and nothing will change that: "Just as it would be impossible to use the same history book in both France and
England, it is impossible to write a single American history that satisfies white, black, Indian, Hispanic, and Asian" (Taylor, 1992). This is the same reasoning that we need to follow
with regard to the multicultural workforce, and why it is important. Supervisors and others who are white, or a member of a majority group, need to "get over" the idea
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