Monday, February 1, 2010

Can we create just one culture?


As we have been taught, multiculturalism is how the government manages the cultural diversity in a society. In most of the countries, especially the ones more developed, people are immigrating searching for a better life, with a job, and high life expectations. This can become a problem because some of them go illegally, and the security cops can return them to their native country. But when they are legal, the government has two choices: let them conserve their traditions and culture (cultural mosaic) or make them adopt the new culture (melting pot).


I think that the better choice is to have a melting pot. I consider this because with the cultural mosaic people will be more separated, and the immigrant people won’t respect the traditions, values, emblems, etc. of the country they have arrived. Also because if they are moving to another country to “progress” they must adopt their ideas to be more successful; they can’t go anywhere and establish their own way of living because they are foreigners.


Also, I think that the government should take this decision so they don’t lose their identity and culture. Because if many people is arriving, the people from that place will decrease, and it is probable that they become extinct. If this happen, it can become a country formed with people all around the world, except from that community.

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