LANGUAGE EDUCATION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES IN TERMS OF CULTURAL PLURALISM AND ETHNOCENTRISM OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY
Journal Title: Духовність особистості: методологія, теорія і практика - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 84
Abstract
The United States is the pluralistic society in which many cultures exist together and have become a part of American identity. The United States is a multilingual nation in which language education of national minorities is realized in terms of socio-cultural pluralism and ethnocentrism of American society. American educational system has long been held up as a model, free and open to people from all social and economic levels, all religious, lingual, and cultural backgrounds. In the United States, language education of national minorities was not uncommon in the 18th and 19th century. As Rita Mae Brown stated, "Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." Considering minority rights in the United States, it is taken into account unwritten customs and conditions in addition to any official status granted to a language community. Cultural pluralism in language education also is considered as a part of the struggle for equal opportunity and has a long history in the United States. Culturally pluralistic groups are societies that allow two or more discrete groups to function equally and separately, with no assimilation expectation or requirement of one into the other. Ethnocentrism in this context means that one may see his/her own culture as the correct way of living. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the attitude of the American society to the problem of language education of national minorities as a manifestation of democracy in the 21st century.
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Olga Ye. Krsek
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