Ethnic Diversity and Campus Students from Multicultural perspectives. Learning and Cross-cultural Experiences

Security Council resolutions, notwithstanding its previous record of vetoing such measures, even blocking the will of an entire world against certain types of aggression. Historical amnesia is a widely prevalent disease in the United States and it is effectively propagated by media complicitous with the status quo. Within the United States itself, forms of internal colonizations — of -654- "minorities" who may or may not be American citizens, "social exiles," and disenchanted populations on the margins of the "American dream" — are sustained in part by United States aggressions externally against peoples of color. Terry Eagleton's distinction between "literal expatriates" and "social exiles" illuminates these marginal minority conditions faced by peoples of color in the United States. Hence, in the same breath, one hears of racist attacks on minority students on a college campus that is also loudly proclaiming "cultural diversity," "multiculturism" in the curriculum, "civility" codes, and so on. Just as covert and insidious as United States cultural imperialism and its impact on peoples of color outside its borders is this covert alliance between a continuing racism and a loudly proclaimed need to eradicate it ...»