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| MULTIRACIAL VS MULTICULTURAL |  | Category: Politics
Thursday, March 14th, 2002 @ 09:44 am
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While hearing miscelaneous people speak about racism and other subjects that are equally endearing to people's hearts, I started noticing a few things. As a multiracial country and society in America, we have but one goal in this arena, full racial integration accross the board. By that I mean people of any race working, living, socializing together without even a shred of bias. An impossible Utopia? Maybe. Should we strive for it anyway? Certainly. Now, you think you would be hard pressed to find someone deadset against this (beside outwardly racist people like the KKK and Nation of Islam), but I protest, you're just not looking the the right place.
As said before, we live in a multiracial society, however, we in no way live in a multicultural society. We have a culture: The American Culture. We use cellphone, we equate the value of our automobile with social status, we eat fast food, we engage in relatively safe and consential sex regularly, we wear blue jeans and T-shirts, suits and jackets, boxers and briefs. No amount of bihndi dots or kente cloth is going to fool anyone when you're wearing them in the line at Burger King.
Now, this is in no way a request for full out banning of the expression of another culture, that would be barbaric (think Islam). I'm just interested in why someone who is fully american-onized would have interest pretending to be Hindu (Madonna), or wearing African tribal-esque garb (Erica Badu et al). Are they ashamed of being American? If so, they have to realize something much more problematic: they are ashamed of who they are.
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