A melting pot
             America is a great melting pot. Cultures from everywhere come here for many reasons. America's foundation is solely based on different ethnicities, mores, customs, traditions, etc. America would not be the same without various cultures immigrating to get away from persecution, starvation, and even genocide. Learning about every culture should be essential. Learning about other cultures allows becoming well rounded and exposed to many ways of thinking. Learning different aspects of cultures we can become tolerant and widen our mind to the way we think and the way we solve problems. It can provide students with the ability to learn about not only America's history, but also quite possibly their own history. I think that textbooks today do not provide adequate representation of multicultural history because they fail to fully examine the history and thought processes of each culture.
             Immigrants who come to America to receive education without speaking good, clear English must also be taken into consideration. Even though they are in America without the knowledge of speaking the common language, they should be assisted in their learning of the language. "Standards can call attention to multiculturalism and can actually open up space for people to address it." (Bohn, p.156).
             "The study of historical events is always about someone's interpretation of those events, a process of distillation, selection, inclusion, exclusion, reorganization, and prioritizing rather than one of merely unfolding-the partial truth, possibly, but never the whole truth"(Ozick). The history we learn is history that has been generalized over time. What is being learned in schools today is being presented the way the author or publishing company would like it to be viewed. History is the basis to the country it is educating. We only learn history from a on...