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Originally Posted by elphenor
Multi-culturalists call for an embrace of heritage for diversity ie African Americans to retain their African culture in addition to their American one
Hence "multi" as opposed to 1 culture
Used in a national sense the US is multicultural because it has a large array of cultures within it not one
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What part of African American culture is still African? I'm sure there are still ghosts of African culture, but they've become so Americanized that their culture is simply African American. This is kind of the point. When minority cultures are exposed to different, majority cultures in close proximity, there's a dilution of culture that eventually subsumes the original culture to the point that it ceases to be relevant except as a memory.