Models of America Ethnic Relations

by Mathilde Sisco, July 2015

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“Throughout its history, the United States has been inhabited by a variety of interacting racial or ethnic groups” (Fredrickson 23). The United States is a huge country with impressive and outstanding history. For many centuries the immigrants from all over the world were settling in new lands of America. Indigenous peoples were American Indians, later on Europeans began to dominate in America. With the development of the economic and political relations people of different races from all continents were becoming the part of American society.

Policies aimed at the assimilation of ethnic groups have usually assumed that there is a single and stable American culture of European, and especially English, origin to which minorities are expected to conform as the price of admission to full and equal participation in the society and polity of the United States (Gordon ch. 4 )

Assimilation has not any racist goals. In accordance with the assimilation the equality has to be achieved but in terms some culture is dominant to which the other cultures, minorities, adjust.

“They [cultural pluralists] argue that cultural diversity is a healthy and normal condition that does not preclude equal rights and the mutual understandings about civic responsibilities needed to sustain a democratic nation-state” (Fredrickson 29). Multinationality is not a flaw of the country. If the government is able to control the welfare of all minorities, people will live in harmony and cultural differences will be insignificant and imperceptible.

“Group separatism might be viewed as a utopian vision or rhetorical device expressing the depths of alienation felt by the most disadvantaged racial or ethnic groups in American society” (Fredrickson 32). American society consists of a lot of cultures and ethnic groups. The USA is a high-powered country with huge economic, social and political status. The minorities have many benefits of living here so the separation is not necessary.

Works Cited

Cordon, Milton M. Assimilation in American Lye: The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Prentice, Deborah A. Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict. Russell Sage Foundation, …

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