contributions to the development of the country. The exam relegates contributions by non-Europeans to trivial questions and rarely any of the essay questions except in some relation to certain wars. It is clear that much of the curriculum even at the college preparatory level does not reflect the multicultural aspects of American society. Julia Alvarez points this out in her essay, when she describes the curriculum at the school where she taught literature as a “visiting instructor.” White male writers from the United States and Great Britain wrote most of the texts in her assigned curriculum (146). Even today, many refer to American culture and past as Anglo-Saxon in nature. True acceptance of multiculturalism and multiracialism will only happen when people accept and learn to understand differences. This will be a time, when people take multiracialism and multiculturalism without the pretentious hype typical of this generation.Despite what one might see on television and what conglomerates may want people to believe, the roots of multiculturalism and multiracialism are in shallow soil. Change does not come by commercial hype, but rather by an evolving process of change in thoughts, ideas and in the racial equation....
