Multicultural Education And Disappointment

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Disappointment, Transfer and compassion Have you ever experienced for hiding in the corner for escaping for bullies and thought for the dream broke while you face is full of tears? Have you ever felt struggled to present your voice in a classroom? Have you ever stuck in continuous paper works and classes even after the end of school? For most students, these kinds of situations are more likely as nightmares that they would try to avoid happened on themselves by all cost in their lifetime. Unfortunately, including myself, these are the frustrating situations a student will be facing during his or hers’ 9-year compulsory school years followed with Taiwanese education system. However, without a doubt, these experience has shaped me in many different ways. For instance, the liberal attitude, the interaction with the depressing event, the process and costs for various embrace …show more content…
However, on another level, it has taught me to acknowledge those individuals that involve in the different culture that shares different traditions, customs and languages compare to our culture. For me, the most important things I’ve learned through these years as the learner in multicultural education is to have the right attitude for approaching different cultures, which is “to respect” each other’s culture, adapt their perspectives and interactive with each other. Overall, these experiences of unfortunate tragedy, transaction into new system, processing of adopting a new culture, and keep passion on the continuously multicultural connections had solidarized me to keep on the education major, as I will try my best for preventing others from suffering same sadness I have gone through in my future career. Moreover, I want to show those victims that there will always have other options rather than just keeping silence and endure those pains throughout their

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