In the article," New immigration stirs the melting pot" , Niko Kyriako discusses how he sees a new civil rights movement emerging from anti-immigrant acts. He expresses that immigrants are shocked at the anti-immigration feelings growing in the United States. Immigrants are looking for a way to become US citizens with an ideology that if they work hard they will be given what they need. Recently in the news, a baby was taken from a mother, by someone who posed to be an immigration officer. Since the mother was an illegal and scared she became a target and was stabbed a number of times for her infant. Luckily, she did not die and police officials were able to apprehend the criminal. The question then is "How far will the mistreatment of these immigrants be?"
In creating a Multicultural curriculum, author Adam Waxler discusses the importance of having multiculturalism curriculum without having to teach the exclusiveness of every culture. The more complicated teaching multiculturalism get , the more children will be wasting time not learning curriculum and creating nationalistic individuals. In my class, I have found promoting both help neither one become more important than the other.
In moving towards a centrist curriculum, the debate is whether curriculum should be moving towards promoting individuality when it comes to ethnicity or a centrist curriculum that promotes multiculturalism as a whole not as individualized ethnicities.
I say no, to both extremes, why not a world and individualized view, which would balance out any of the extremes in a classroom. Children need to come to an understanding of others ethnicity, as well as understanding that all races are special and important and not above another's.
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