What is
Multi-Cultural? Dictionary.com defines Multicultural as of,
relating to, or representing several different cultures or cultural
elements. To me, this means that multiple cultures are coming
together forming a melting pot of their differences. This is seen
in bell hooks, A Revolution of Values: The Promise of
Multi-Cultural Change when she talks about the desegregation of her
high
school. In this she talks about her best friend Ken who was a
white male and took risks to befriend her. This essay talks about
the struggles of being African-American and a female during a rough
point in American history, but what bell hooks really wants the
reader to understand, is the importance of friendship and how it
can create a
cultureof
equality,
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She states It
was a last-minute decision. I had just finished a new book.
Whenever I finish a work, I always feel lost, as though a steady
anchor has been taken away and there in no sure ground under my
feet. (bell hooks pg. 4). This feeling of the unknown led her to
go to her high school reunion, the first one that was going to be
racially integrated. This lead Ms. Hooks to remember her days in
high school and how Those period in our adolescent lives of racial
desegregation had been full of hostility, rage, conflict and loss.
We black kids had been angry that we had to leave our beloved
all-black high school Crispus Attuck and be bussed halfway across
town to integrate white schools
We had to give up the familiar and
enter a world that seemed cold and strange, not our world, not our
school. (hooks pg. 4). After she talks about the transition into
an integrated high school, hooks talks about her friend Ken. Ken
was a white male and during this time Friendship across racial
lines was bad enough, but friendship across gender was unheard of
and dangerous. (hooks pg.5). Later hooks talks about how she grew
up politically and how she was placed to end sexism and sexism
oppression. She talks about a quote by Martin Luther King Jrs book
Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community, talking about how we
must change from an object-oriented
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9). Hooks is
telling us that to be able to respect cultural diversity we might
have to challenge what we have learned, challenge our past to be
able to make the future a reality. As Wolfgang Lehmacher states
Respect means to open up to other cultures. We need to slip into
the shoes of other cultures by better understand our own. By better
understanding ourselves. The more we understand our foundations and
the better we are rooted in our culture the easier it is to open up
to other societies. (Lehmacher). This just further proves that we
need to open to other cultures and step into their shoes to be able
to full understand what different cultures are going through. To be
able to truly face reality and challenge yourself you have to
identify what the problem is, and for most people that is really
difficult because they need to take a step back and critically
analyze what they are doing wrong in the first place. Some people
may even need to take on a completely different prospective to be
able to figure out what is wrong in their
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