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Many educators in Canada and the United States advocate multicultural education as a means of achieving multicultural understanding. ███

Intro topic · Multicultural education

First proposal · Teach about other cultures from within context of majority culture

Schools and colleges should teach students through the lens of majority culture values (liberalism).

Critics of first proposal · Genuine understanding of other cultures impossible using lens of majority culture

Not all cultures share liberal values.

Second proposal · Multicultural education should be neutral about different cultures' values

Shaped by Western culture · Second proposal still uses Western methods

The second proposal still uses tools of anthropology, political science, and other Western disciplines.

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Critics of second proposal · Second proposal is just like first

Can't understand other cultures using scientific method, because science is rooted in Western values that are not necessarily shared by other cultures.

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To understand the meaning of “modest” in this sentence, consider the relationship between the proposal in the first paragraph and the proposal presented later. The first proposal advocates teaching about other cultures from the perspective, methods, and values of the majority culture. The second proposal advocates studying other cultures, but while holding a neutral stance concerning the values of other cultures.

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The concept of “speculation” about other cultures has no support. There’s no reason to think that one proposal requires more speculating about other cultures than the other proposal does.

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This is the best answer. Under the first proposal, we’re simply studying another culture in the same way that we study other things — we still use our own perspectives, values, and methods. But under the second proposal, we have to consciously try to be neutral; this is something the first proposal doesn’t require. So in that sense the first proposal is more “modest” — we don’t have to change as much about how we study.

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The first proposal is the one that takes a more Western perspective; the second proposal is the one that advocates trying to be neutral about other cultures’ values. So it doesn’t make sense for the first proposal to involve less Eurocentric cultural chauvinism.

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The first proposal involves studying only from the majority culture’s perpsective. So it doesn’t employ several cultural perspectives.

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The first proposal doesn’t care about neutrality; it doesn’t advocate that one needs to be neutral. The second proposal is the one that advocates neutrality. So the first proposal actual deviates more from a neutral stance compared to the second proposal.

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