Nationalism and Multiculture

This week’s articles had be saying “what are they talking about”. Reading Pittissippi, I couldn’t believe there is actually a group that wants to clea.r out the Pacific Northwest for the Aryan race. This type of hatred is foreign to me. I don’t understand how people can be so narrow-minded and full of hate toward another person.

As for the second article, I again said to myself, “What are they talking about?”, but for a very different reason. I really had a hard time grasping what they were talking about. If they mean that each culture needs to be in its own “area” I’m not sure how this would be multicultural, wouldn’t it be distinct cultures. I did agree with the lunacy of education in the language of origin. Regardless of the problems with how to determine origin, this seems to be a narrow view of things. If someone is living in a particular country, should they be taught in that language. If the family wants to teach a language of origin that can certainly been done at home, but if you live in a country you should be able to converse in that countries language, which probably means it being taught in schools.

Happily, the third article was a seemingly unbiased, comprehendible one. It did have me thinking about the how to represent the many different perspectives of history. I think the key is to keep an open dialogue about the different perspectives that cultures might have.
Learning about our neighbors and view of life is a great thing.

Multiculturalism to me means the peaceful cohabitation and representation of all cultures and races. That maybe an idealistic view, but I think we were all created in God’s image and we can live happily together. The crux is being accepting of others. It doesn’t mean we have to agree with everything another does but we can learn from each other. Imagine a world where we share the best of ourselves with our fellow man, Heaven.