“The Cult of Ethnicity” Response Racism nowadays can be a very sensitive subject to talk about in our society. The view of people on racism is as a jeopardizing act and as a threat to our peace. This thought of the people is inevitable as we see it in the general everyday life. Many events these days states the obvious that racism will never be gone. As the fact that was written in “The Cult of Ethnicity” by Arthur Schlesinger, “[t]he pot did not melt everybody…” (Schlesinger 14). According to Schlesinger, ethnic and racial differences in America will always be a problem and I agree with his point. I am agreeing to the statements he had made of society’s deal with racism that is a “salient fact of the age” but the Unites States of America handles this problem to an extent to keep peace in its soil.
It is a fact that the United States is one is one of the most interracial countries in the…show more content… “[T]he rise of the notion that history and literature should be taught not as disciplines but as therapies whose function is to raise minority self-esteem.” (Schlesinger 15). I coincide with this statement as I believe that history would not repeat itself when it is avoided and it gives us confidence that it will teach the next generation on how to deal with these things in the future. However, as Bruce A. Goebel says in “Diversity, Conformity, and Democracy: A Critique of Arthur M. Schlesinger’s The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society” that “Schlesinger is concerned with the way various groups of ethnics, feminists, and others influence what is taught public school” and I think that Goebel is correct in this as Schlesinger wants to deliver his message to youth by learning history influenced by many groups in order to acknowledge diverse
