Multiculturalism

Benefit of Multiculturalism Since the 1960s, the American government has admitted cultural diversity in American and encouraged the equality for everyone no matter which race they are or which sex they are. The world nowadays knows America as a multicultural country. So what is multiculturalism? It is According to United State Bureau, the population of Houston in 2010 is 2, 145, 146 people included 50.5 % white people, 23.7% black people, 6.0 Asian people, 0.7 % American Indian and Alaska Native people, 25.6 % white people but not Hispanic, 43.8 % people of Hispanic or Latino origin, 0.1 % Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander. So with the variety of ethnicity, Houston is listed of multicultural city in American. Moreover, Houston is also an international city in American because there are a lot international business here such as Texas medical center, international airport, port of Houston, border on Mexico and oil and gas. However, the society seem doesn’t want to accept that we have many people from other culture which want to keep pace with American. There are facts that racism strongly exists in the community and stop other people to express themselves in public or make them feel uncomfortable and ashamed because they are not White. In Anzaldua’s essay “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, she condemns the unfair treatment because her accent when she speak English and because of speaking Spanish in her class. “I remember being sent to the corner of the classroom for “talking back” to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name. “If you want to be American, speak “American.” If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.” If American accept multiculturalism and allow them to join the community, there should be better way to treat people more fairly. Multiculturalism is a good thing and brings a lot of benefit for our society. We can eat different cultural style foods. We can