Cultural Pluralism?

Question

t is widely accepted and acknowledged that ethnicity is a significant treating factor within the human service milieu. Much research and attention has been paid to ethnicity and attitudes toward cultural pluralism. The current demographics of my area would indicate that this region still has very little ethnic diversity compared to larger urban areas. I would argue that there is a broader and more obvious diversity between socio-economic groups, particularly in my area. Ethnic groups are a very small or underrepresented in the services sector.

Why should we pay so much more attention to cultural pluralism in our delivery of services? Why should this get more attention than serving the poor?

Answer 1

Cultural pluralism exists when foreign culture groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities. In a pluralist culture, unique groups not only coexist side by side, but also consider and adopted qualities of other groups as traits worth having in the merged dominant culture.

In the United States, these main groups tend to merge into a more dual cultural, by the second generation. By the third generation most cultural are merged into a combination of best or the original cultural and the Supposed best of the adopted countries culture. That is why the term melting pot applies to place like New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans and Miami.

Answer 2

The mind has a strong predisposition to its own interests. This limits its capacity for innovation and tolerance for the unexpected. Lacking the forced integration into a diverse world, the mind creates a very strong world picture (even its own reality) based upon its own values and knowledge. In isolation, people commonly experience delusions, schizophrenia, and other psychological abnormalities and problems.

The beauty of culture and of innovation, and the secure mental stability and peace of an open mind appear to be primary motivators for diversity and cultural pluralism. But what would be even better is the assimilation of the best of all cultures into cultural, inclusionary, heterogeneously balanced super-culture. A culture of inclusion, acceptance, respect, and equality; rejecting incompatible extreme, militant cultures/subcultures, of course..