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I'm also in your age range and am an American who happens to be black (My preferred designation after 9/11).

Obviously, there was little "diversity" or "multiculturalism" in the textbooks we used. What did we do? My parents, being proud of our racial heritage and wanting us exposed to it, made sure to support supplemental studies in black/African culture and history, which was reflected in our home and in many of the forms of entertainment we chose. I never owned a white doll.

At the same time, they made sure we were exposed to classical music, art, and other aspects of Western Civilization since that was the civilization we lived under. We read most, if not all, of the "Great Books." We were taught to appreciate other cultures, to the point that we sometimes went to school wearing green, carrying green cupcakes on St. Patrick's Day that my mother baked.

My point- instead of forcing the schools to teach "multiculturalism," particularly at the expense of the greatness of the civilization that has allowed us all the standard of living that we enjoy, parents and communities need to make sure their kids get exposed to the variety of multiculturalism that they want them to learn.

Thanks for the flag.

My point- instead of forcing the schools to teach "multiculturalism," particularly at the expense of the greatness of the civilization that has allowed us all the standard of living that we enjoy, parents and communities need to make sure their kids get exposed to the variety of multiculturalism that they want them to learn.

Exactly. Multiculturalism imposes on public education, purely private beliefs. It is, constitutionally speaking, no different than if the schools imposed Episcopalianism on students.

Personally, what you're talking about is more of your ancestory, not broad scale multiculturalism in a public school. For example, our history is western and it is Americanized. In the past, Italian and Irish did not have various examples of their cultures taught in the public schools, though they were studied in a historical context. That's not the same as today whereby outright historical lies are littered throughout the textbook, and multiculturalism and diversity are spread throughout all textbooks, perhaps with the exception of math. Furthermore, it's usually not taken from a historical perspective.

Nice post, though.