Reaction Paper On Multiculturalism

The term multiculturalism coins a variety of customs and traditions that have evolved and the existence that brings them together in modern society, but what if some cultures are more advanced than others? This book emphasizes the value of Jewish, Confucius and Protestant cultures more than any other. However, the author argues that not all cultures are regarded as equivalent, but are respected as if they were. But despite everything, the author has spent a great deal of time getting to know different cultures through trips and research to evaluate his perspective. He believes that the differences in cultures are important and often undermined. The author uses different elements of social sciences (psychology, economics, e.g.) to describe that idolizes differences in our society. Economically speaking, most of our decisions and policies come from accommodating different cultures .United States for example has been known to strive to protect our nation from disputes within the country based on barriers and differences. Our well known border control for

In conclusion, no culture is better or worse than any other. This principle is good incentive for many cultural anthropologists doing ethnographic research in the field. The goal of Multiculturalism is to truly understand other’s differences, however unfortunately ethnocentrism takes a part of that study which deals with those that distort the reality of a multicultural society and choose to judge other based on their own beliefs. By challenging the belief that some cultures might be better adapted to facilitate progress, democracy, social justice, and prevention of poverty, which ultimately defines the goals of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, cultural relativism begins to look more like a disorder than a former