Cultural Pluralism

In community interventions, ethical behavior relates to the treatment of humans, knowledge, and wealth and also the general activities of people when they are not dealing directly with the community. When it comes to social issues, ethical issues are most often the center of the controversy. Ethical controversies are created when groups quarrel that certain topics are moral or immoral. In the Model of American Ethnic Relations: A Historical Perspective, an essay by George M. Fredrickson, he explains the changes on how distinctive cultural groups define themselves or the way they have been defined previous through another group by delivering the four basic conceptions of how ethnic or racial groups should express to each other, including Ethnic
"The model of cultural development during this period was evolutionary, progressive, and universalistic" (Fredrickson 571). Fredrickson believes that the best hope for a just a cohesive society is the offer of Cultural Pluralism. The difference between pluralists and assimilationists is that fact that pluralists celebrate the differences among groups rather than eliminate them. An example for this ethnic relation is the 18th and 19th centuries that ignored the essential conception of the aspect of cultures. Cultural Pluralism to immigrants is viewed to be a “melting pot,” they need to abandon their own culture, languages, and other traditions in order to assimilate the American culture. Different ethnic groups have enhanced the American life as immigrants and native-born citizens, broadening views on the basic aspects of life such as, art, cuisine, education, history, and
Ethnic Hierarchy deals with the dominant group claiming to conceive themselves as society’s highest class and declare the rights and privileges that aren’t shared with the people who are considered to be “unfit” for equal rights. The One-Way Assimilation handles equality by allowing others to put aside cultural differences and adapt to the cultures and traditions of the society itself. Cultural Pluralism shows how the celebration of the differences instead of trying to eliminate differences between the diverse ethnic groups can keep a long lasting healthy society. And lastly, Fredrickson discusses the concept of Group Separatism in which the cultural or racial groups withdraw from their society and interactions from other groups in order to control themselves. Although we’ve grown closer together as a society, there is still a great mass of diversity throughout our nation. Once we all come together on a mutual decision of accepting all types of cultures and human beings, America will only then be ethically