Учебное пособие G. G. Gubina english for tourists in professional communication part I textbook

Pluralism means plurality towards qualities or states.  
Task 9. Read the text and define the approaches towards the problems of multiethnic culture of the USA.  
pluralistic, a плюралистический  
recognise (recognised, recognised, recognising), recognises, v 1 признать 2 осознавать  
support (supported, supported, supporting), supports, v 1 поддерживать 2 содействовать 3 
способствовать  
Multiethnic Culture of the USA 
The USA is a multiethnic state. It is much easier to visit a certain culture abroad and bring back 
productive ideas than to remove the borders between the cultures within the country. There exist contrary 
approaches on the problem of the culturalism of the American culture: pluralism and particularism. From 
the pluralists’ view, different cultures communicate with each other and influence one another. This 
approach determines the diversity of cultures, which form one common culture of the country. The 
pluralists suppose this phenomenon causes the uniqueness of American culture. A lot of people in the 
country are now supporting pluralistic multiculturalism and think it is a forming standard for the American 
society. 
On the other hand, there still exists another approach of the particularism stating that no common 
culture is thinkable or wanted. Sometimes under pluralistic ideas people understand tolerance and 
sympathy towards some nationalities taking into consideration assertion of the American unity. As a matter 
of fact, notions of ethnic diversity and cultural diversity are quite different. The new tendency is that the 
USA is developing as a more ethnically and culturally diverse country. And together with these changes 
there has appeared the idea of assimilation of cultures with Anglo-conformity, the melting pot, and cultural 
pluralism. But the American society is based on individual rights, determining the approval of 
particularism in the society. The culture of the USA is multiethnic and not multicultural. The problems of 
culturalism are complicated and have to be resolved in the future as well new approaches have to be 
developed towards the problem with the changes in the society.