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none reorganize thoughts In, 'Multiculturalism and the Common Center,' Diane Ravitch compares the plualist views on what the curriculum in the schools should include. The pluralist would like to include the history of all cultures while the particularist want to have the different cultures taught only their own history. In order to live in a multicultural world pluralism is neccessary because people are more tolerant of each other if they understand where a person …

…world involves the collision of cultures and over time many of them faded into each other. Segregating the different cultures is regressing back to the time before the Civil Rights Movement when African Americans and Caucasians used different bathrooms and water fountains. It would be a mistake to use particularist ideas because it could cause tension and resentment between cultures. Pluralism will end ignorance ans create a nation where people can live together in harmony.