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Gregory Rodriguez:
" The soft form of American pluralism threatens nothing -- especially English. IT'S TEMPTING TO SAY that multiculturalism is dead in America, but that would imply that it was actually alive once.Multiculturalism — the ideology that promotes equal status for different cultures in one nation — emerged circa 1970 when foreign-born residents made up the lowest percentage of the American population in U.S. history. [..] Since then, multiculturalist rhetoric has made tremendous gains in the U.S., particularly in educational circles. In academia, the notion of assimilation has been rejected and the "melting pot" metaphor replaced with "mosaic" or "salad bowl" — images that underline the cultural distinctiveness of ethnic and racial minorities."
