Summary:
"Antiracism, Multiculturalism and Interracial community:
Three Educational values for a multicultural society."
Lawrence Blum is a philosophy professor at University of Massachussetts. He starts off his article stating four values that are important to the education program. They are antiracism, multiculturalism, sense of community and individuality. Racism is when a person or group has attitudes over another. The goal of antiracism is to be "without racist attitudes". Multiculturalism is the understanding of another's culture, and the ways of a culture. Community involves saying that people in a community have a somewhat "bond" to other people of races and ethnicities. Individuality is recognizing the person as an individual when that person is a different race and different ethnic group.
He states that these values are different from each other. He also states that these values support each other, but there is tension between them.......
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