I found this article to be extremely interesting. The United States is constantly changing it's identity due to the large amount of immigrants that have come to this country. Many say that the United States is like a melting pot, but I do not agree with this because there is not one culture here in the US but rather a mixture of different parts of different cultures all together. Therefore I believe that it's more of like a salad bowl, or a kaleidoscope as the article says, in that there are very many distinct parts of it and that they are constantly changing. What really intrigued me about this article is that it explained all of the different contributions that each race brought to America. It's weird because you do not think of what life here would be without some of those things had they choose not to move here.
When I think about how the topic of this article will effect me in my future teaching, it just makes me realize that once I begin to teach I need to understand that I am going to have a variety of students all from many different cultures, races and backgrounds. Therefore it is necessary for all pre-service teachers to have a strong understanding of the different cultures and customs of our future students. Just as the quote from the article says, immigration brings the world into the US schools, meaning that inside my classroom I will many students from different backgrounds of the world.
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