Who speaks in multicultural discourse?
We hope to address these questions, among others, as we cover the history and development of multiculturalism as a stance and as a movement at work in US society. Whether or not we can, in fact, give any answer at all, much less a satisfactory one, is doubtful. To our minds, to answer with a definite would be to establish a false anchor in the exchange of ideas, which necessarily requires freedom from absolute definition or restraint in order to progress in a beneficial and critical manner. What is Multiculturalism and What Has It Been? The position that probably sparked the development of what we might today term multicultural awareness and perspective was that of tolerance. That is, earlier settlers would suffer the habits and cultures of immigrants new to the United States until they assimilated into the society in place when they arrived and were accustomed to the norms of roles and behavior. This, of course, excluded Native Americans since such an attitude would have required Euro
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