Diverse Cultures

Visiting Oceanside Pier, I saw multi racial ethnicities of peoples: Asians, Blacks, Hispanic, Whites that they are all coexistence freely and sharing this place. Some couples are interracial, so their children’s skin colors are different also. In Japan, I don’t see many foreigners or multi-culture people as I see in America. America has a unique history. America’s cultural assimilation began in the 17^th century when Europeans took land over from Native Americans. Native Americans have civilized after influence of Europeans colonizers, and marriage of the Indian Princess Pocahontas to John Rolf impacted interracial marriage. From the Indian Princess passage (p.120), Walter says, “Whenever they were so ill-bred as to appear with their turbans on….,” it referrers to Native Americans in racist way.  In the 17^th century, any race other than white was treated inferior like Walter describes as “ill-bread.”  America has changed since then because the people of democracy in this country system made freedom and equality. However, America still has some racial issues because our hierarchy systems in society will not simply solve these problems. For example, there is a group called KKK still exists in this 21^st century of America, which it suggests assumption of racial superiority claimed by people like Walter in Pocahontas will never ends.  Nevertheless, I think cultural diversity is a beautiful part of American culture.  As a result, still many people around the world come to America for opportunities and dreams.