race unsettling topic

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/yet-once-more-political-correctness-on-campus/?hp
I like this article because it provides us with insight of how the topics of segregation, race as factor of admission, and multicultural education applies to our college experience. As we talk about Education most of us focuses or usually talk about our schooling experience before college. However, these issues are very present in college campus. We ended class with the idea that multicultural education would ease the effects of segregated schools and to acknowledge and accept our biases. As i read this article I was wondering, how can we go about creating or assuring that children are getting a multicultural education. Multicultural Education should start off in pre-school, the earlier children start learning about different culture, race, gender, and religion the more accepting they will be of others. It would prepare students to be more tolerant, respectful and open minded by the time they get to college. As the author express his concern about the segregated cliques that is seen most colleges, where students mostly hang-out with people of their own race, religion or ethnicity. Which most of us may have witness in our campus. He mention or discusses on how the universities and colleges then to reinforce segregation on campus through the use of race in admissions policy, lack of unity among different cultural organization and courses descriptions. I can see the disunity among organization and have experience the discrepancies in some of the courses offered. I enjoy the fact that in college we have option of taking multicultural classes, even though most students are discourage from taking these classes because are uncomfortable with the idea of being misunderstood, isolated or to be the minority group in class. Most of us tend to just be involve or be part of n environment in which we are comfortable in, but understand that it is not hard or as difficult to be outside our comfort zone. Kerri- Ann made important point that the first step toward becoming more multicultural is to accept and acknowledge all of our biases in order to formed better relationship with of different culture and races. I once registered for a class Russian/cinema class that was supposed to be based on cold War, i ended up dropping the class because the professor (which was Russian)had a lot of side conversation in Russian with few the Russian student in class. the are just certain things that can discourage student from taking certain class, if i had read that Russian would be spoken in that class i would never taken it. It is not because it bother me just wasn't comfortable, but it didn't discourage me from taking other classes that focus on the study of other races, which i enjoy and learned a lot from. Even though i can see how the author sees these courses are politically related such as the Asian studies and Latin American class both talk and dealt with political issues that rise with the in-fluxed of Asian and Latino immigrants. Learning about the different experience of other immigrant groups help me understand the history of politics and economy United States in relationship with race and culture. There a lot of history that is exempt from American history taught in Elementary through High school which would help us understand the diverse backgrounds of most Americans. In what degree would your view be different if you had a multicultural education?