America: The Multinational Society Analysis
The United States is known as a multicultural country, is an ideal place for the migrants. When talking about the common culture of the majority of Americans is referred to “American popular culture,” That is a Western culture largely drawn from the traditions of immigrants from Western Europe, starting as the Dutch Settlers, British, etc. Following is migrant of Asian people contributed to diversification of culture in the U.S and made the U.S like a small world on the earth. This multicultural society was being the topic for many author to write. “America: The Multinational Society” which is written by Ishmael Reed is one of them. Specifically, in the text, Ishmael Reed criticizes the American society …show more content…
Which Reeds describes as having the ability to “grace the wall of any of the country’s leading museum” was displayed in a local McDonald’s restaurant. This encounter depicts real-life case that occurs often, which means that talented artist whose work get overlooked because they don’t fit society’s mold of an ideal artist. Here, Reed is critiquing American that they just create an environment in which one group of artist are favored over the other, and artists of other ethnicity and races bring cultural ideas into their work, don’t deserve an opportunity equal to what “ while” American artist are given. Reed’s personal experience show us how real and how common a monocultural perspective of American can …show more content…
He distinguish between Americans today and The Puritans of the New World. The Puritans were a group of White-American Settlers, White Americans who have idea of a diversified nation can relate to them directly. Reed points out that these Puritans were very rude, destroying others cultures, hating art, punishing people illegally in cruel ways and even killing their children for disobeying their parent, exterminated Indians, and ”when they cam in contact with those whom they considered heathens or aliens, they behaved in such a bizarre and irrational manner that this chapter in Americans history comes down to us as a late-movie horror film.” Analyzing these cruel observation, Reed is awe of the fact that American textbooks regard as “a hardy band” of no-nonsense patriarchs who brought order to the New World.” Reed mocks Americans for ignoring the Puritans abuse of foreign people, and only praising their gateway of work in the New World. While Americans with monoculturalist mindset can relate to the Puritans, as they too regard citizens of different background as lesser than, but still seem to be the foundational group in the U.S despite their unwarranted
The United States is known as a multicultural country, is an ideal place for the migrants. When talking about the common culture of the majority of Americans is referred to “American popular culture,” That is a Western culture largely drawn from the traditions of immigrants from Western Europe, starting as the Dutch Settlers, British, etc. Following is migrant of Asian people contributed to diversification of culture in the U.S and made the U.S like a small world on the earth. This multicultural society was being the topic for many author to write. “America: The Multinational Society” which is written by Ishmael Reed is one of them. Specifically, in the text, Ishmael Reed criticizes the American society …show more content…
Which Reeds describes as having the ability to “grace the wall of any of the country’s leading museum” was displayed in a local McDonald’s restaurant. This encounter depicts real-life case that occurs often, which means that talented artist whose work get overlooked because they don’t fit society’s mold of an ideal artist. Here, Reed is critiquing American that they just create an environment in which one group of artist are favored over the other, and artists of other ethnicity and races bring cultural ideas into their work, don’t deserve an opportunity equal to what “ while” American artist are given. Reed’s personal experience show us how real and how common a monocultural perspective of American can …show more content…
He distinguish between Americans today and The Puritans of the New World. The Puritans were a group of White-American Settlers, White Americans who have idea of a diversified nation can relate to them directly. Reed points out that these Puritans were very rude, destroying others cultures, hating art, punishing people illegally in cruel ways and even killing their children for disobeying their parent, exterminated Indians, and ”when they cam in contact with those whom they considered heathens or aliens, they behaved in such a bizarre and irrational manner that this chapter in Americans history comes down to us as a late-movie horror film.” Analyzing these cruel observation, Reed is awe of the fact that American textbooks regard as “a hardy band” of no-nonsense patriarchs who brought order to the New World.” Reed mocks Americans for ignoring the Puritans abuse of foreign people, and only praising their gateway of work in the New World. While Americans with monoculturalist mindset can relate to the Puritans, as they too regard citizens of different background as lesser than, but still seem to be the foundational group in the U.S despite their unwarranted