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6- Multiculturalism is a recent phenomenon. While many people would
like to live in a multicultural society others prefer to live in a society with
their own culture and disrespect people from other nation.
With which opinion do you agree? Use specific reasons to support your
opinion.
Racism is a certain kind of prejudice, based on faulty reasoning and inflexible
generalizations toward a specific group. Fortunately, through
multiculturalism
people recognize the diversity of cultures and their bias against a certain race
is removed. In multicultural societies all those individuals have their own
culture, religion, morals and standards.
Humans are
not perfect species; we all have our flaws. Human’s greatest flaw
is fear. Humans fear everything that is unfamiliar and strange to them such as
foreigners and their cultures. In multicultural societies that fear is automatically
eliminated as a result of familiarization with the “stranger”.
In
addition, it provides people with the opportunity of understanding and
accepting one another. People usually try to change a culture or a religion to
fit their own views, instead of accepting it and its diversity. Accepting the
individuality and diversity of people and their customs indicates that they are
equal in your eyes and that forms respect. In many ways humans are
equal
because they all have the same necessities and they all get hurt the same
way. Once we accept someone’s religion and nationality we accept them as
human beings.
Furthermore, there is an advantage in living in a
country that contains a
variety of cultures. People get a “taste” of each culture, thus gain a greater
understanding of its customs and history. For that matter, people
living in a
multicultural country are endowed with extraordinary powers of knowledge. As
a great man once said “Knowledge is Power”. Countries with multicultural
societies have the power to revolutionize the world and create unity and
diversity at the same time.
In
summation, in order to reduce racism multiculturalism is a necessity. As a
result of multiculturalism fear of the unknown is eliminated and instead of it
respect and understanding for one another steps in.
(301 words)
Essay Practice
When people move to another country, some of them decide to follow the
customs of
the new country. Others prefer to keep their own customs. Compare these two
choices. Which one do you prefer? Support your answer with specific details.