An excellent article with so many good points. I wasn't even aware of multi-culturalism until the 1970's in the Mainland university city in which my family lived. Through the fellow mothers in the League of Women Voters, many who were university professors wives, I joined a parent's group for multi-culturalism to be taught in our schools, and to employ more minority teachers as role models. Eventually I co- chaired the group, working with the school supertindent and school board. I awakened to what was left out of AMERICAN History courses of minority contributions. Teachers were reluctant, they were required mandatory training in multicultural education. No child should feel that they are unimportant. We parents were fortunate to work with a good school supertindent and school board who genuinely cared for the children's well being, learning experience.