The Relationship Between Anglo-Conformity And Pluralism
“Native American members of a church want to be allowed to ingest peyote because this drug has historically been part of their religious rituals.”
How would Anglo-conformism, melting pot, separatism, and pluralism assess this situation above?
Anglo-conformism: According to Cole and Cole (1954) Anglo conformity is the attempt of English colonists to keep certain American values, norms, and standards. Anglo conformity is an extension of English culture and European civilization. It rejects diversity in favor of homogeneity, requiring that everyone conform to values, norms, and standards determined by the Anglo founders of the country and modified by a continuing white majority. Anglo promote that immigrant should abandon their language, ethnic heritage like customs, ceremonies and traditions to adopt American ways to be similar to everyone else. Bourne pointed out that Anglo conformity perspective contradicted the nation’s ideals on individual freedom.
Melting pot: Studies explained that this implied giving up their ethnic identification, with its history and traditions, to be acceptable to white people. Although the melting pot was supposed to be the combination of all subcultures into a new and superior culture, Laosa (1974) described the process as a “melting away of subcultures and the preponderance of the dominant …show more content…
Menand, (2001) expresses that people in USA has right to preserve their cultural heritage and not forced to abandon it to conform to a dominant culture. Bourne predicted that if Americans could eradicate white supremacist attitudes and adopt a pluralistic perspective, the United States could become “the first truly democratic society on earth” (p. 144). Pluralists insist that people have right to maintain and be proud of their racial, cultural, ethnic, or religious
How would Anglo-conformism, melting pot, separatism, and pluralism assess this situation above?
Anglo-conformism: According to Cole and Cole (1954) Anglo conformity is the attempt of English colonists to keep certain American values, norms, and standards. Anglo conformity is an extension of English culture and European civilization. It rejects diversity in favor of homogeneity, requiring that everyone conform to values, norms, and standards determined by the Anglo founders of the country and modified by a continuing white majority. Anglo promote that immigrant should abandon their language, ethnic heritage like customs, ceremonies and traditions to adopt American ways to be similar to everyone else. Bourne pointed out that Anglo conformity perspective contradicted the nation’s ideals on individual freedom.
Melting pot: Studies explained that this implied giving up their ethnic identification, with its history and traditions, to be acceptable to white people. Although the melting pot was supposed to be the combination of all subcultures into a new and superior culture, Laosa (1974) described the process as a “melting away of subcultures and the preponderance of the dominant …show more content…
Menand, (2001) expresses that people in USA has right to preserve their cultural heritage and not forced to abandon it to conform to a dominant culture. Bourne predicted that if Americans could eradicate white supremacist attitudes and adopt a pluralistic perspective, the United States could become “the first truly democratic society on earth” (p. 144). Pluralists insist that people have right to maintain and be proud of their racial, cultural, ethnic, or religious