The melting pot is behind us, that metaphor for a culture that many of us grew up in, a culture that diminished minorities and ethnic cultures, encouraging them to dissolve into the vast sea of the American Dream. But does the culture of diversity that has replaced it simply re-stratify power; a slight of hand …
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Media Falsely Depict “Diversity”
This is an essay that appeared in the February 3rd, 2012 edition of the Daily News Record. For more information on the Daily News Record, please visit www.dnronline.com. By Margot Heffernan, MLS Diversity. Multiculturalism. Tolerance. These words are bandied about in conversations and communication, and as such, have become part of the modern lexicon. Hardly a …