Alan L. Mittleman Copyright (c) 1996 First Things 68 (December 1996): 14-17. For some decades, American Jews have made sense of the relation between their Americanness and their Jewishness through the concept of cultural pluralism. This concept allowed a flexible but expansive Jewish ethnic and religious identity to coexist with an equally normative American identity. […]

In the first part of this two-part essay on the anti-multiculturalism movement in Europe and United States, I attempted to carefully note that the backlash against multiculturalism was far more niched against specific groups—the Muslims in Europe and the UK and the Hispanics in the United States. I did not mean to suggest, however, that […]

The U.S. Attorney General was at all five hearings. So were the Secretary of Agriculture and all the top anti-trust officials at the Departments of Justice and Agriculture. It was unprecedented: At five public hearings in five places across the country in 2010, two cabinet secretaries and all the top antitrust cops on the federal […]

Multiculturalism in America has promoted the socio-economic life of American society. Read ahead to know its effects on America. Multiculturalism is the acceptance of multiple ethnic cultures at the organizational level. This is applied to the demographic make-up of a country, where people from different religious backgrounds, countries and tradition are given equitable status in […]

Comment The pros and cons of the multicultural society in the USA! The USA is regarded as country with unlimited possibilities. Because of the American Dream giving hope to so many people to make it America has the highest immigration rate. People immigrate into the USA legal but there are also many people entering the […]

By  Stanley Renshon , February 8, 2011 Multiculturalism in the United States has a long silent history. The United States has, from its founding, taken in immigrants from different cultural backgrounds, many of whom were, at the time, controversial. First, it was the Germans who raised questions about whether they could or would become “real […]

By Frosty Wooldridge 3-13-8 Less than 30 years ago, most everything in America enjoyed the moniker “All American.” Sports heroes became “All Americans.” When you bought a product, it read, “Made in America.” Everyone spoke English and raised their hands to their hearts while saying, “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States […]

In the past two weeks, a Korean man shot up a college in California.  In Florida, a Hispanic man killed black Trayvon Martin.  Yesterday in Oklahoma, a Native American Indian killed five Hispanics.  Two years ago, an Arab-American named Major Nadal Hasan shot up 43 people killing 13. Three years ago, a Korean immigrant shot […]

Cosmopolitanism describes the “nebulous core” of many claims that all of humanity comprises a single moral community, and therefore people have no obligations to their own fellow citizens above and beyond the obligations they have as moral agents to people at large, or, if they do, then the special obligations to fellow citizens is limited […]