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Subject 15 September 2012
Models of America Ethnic Relations
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
