religion, racial, cultural behaviors, and cultural thinking co-existing by acknowledging and hopefully respecting one another cultural differences. The United States is defiantly a multicultural nation; we are still working on being in harmony and accepting the many cultural of this great nation. Even at the time of American independence in 1776, the US was multicultural. the diverse groups of Indian tribes, from the new settlers coming from all over England, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Scotland, Spain and the slaves of Africa. By the 19th century when the US added Puerto Rico and at that time the Philippines as territories. During the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Chinese, Jews, Greeks, Irish, Italians, and Japanese came to the United States. Because of the many cultures and different believes of thinking This nations is rich in arts, science, medicine, foods, spirits, sports, music, politics and even the law. The many groups of people have added in different ways contribution to the growth of the United States of American. All have left a mark on the countries culture and language, although Americans say they speak English it is not English, its American- English made of multiple- languages. The most diverse countries in the world are found in Africa the United States falls the middle, while Canada and Mexico are more diverse than the …show more content…
By understanding how each plays a role in the making of society. we know that multiculturalism is various cultures, i.e. religion, racial, cultural behaviors, and cultural thinking co-existing in a nation or population of people. Structural functionalism is a category of sociology that looks at and address society as a whole in the way it function in traditions, customs, and the norms. It looks at society as a complex system whose moving parts works together to promote solidarity, order, function and most important stability. If society is various cultural and these various cultural are contributing to stability, society is maintained, therefore society is in harmony. This works because all the part are working together. Once there is an interruption or a break down in the moving parts. The part has either to be replaced or eliminated. All this is to maintain the stability for the whole. Normal human nature is the problem, social organization, society, and culture is what keeps people from destroying themselves along with