Celebrating Multiculturalism

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Question Answered: Discuss the way(s) in which International Education celebrates multiculturalism. Outline the values of diversity in the context of modern education.

International education brings the ideas of many to one place of learning. These ideas express different views of different topics. Being exposed to different views and ideas help us learn the subject matter more effectively. This is primarily because when we are surrounded by people who are from the same place that we are, the majority will think the same things that we do, and if we all think the same thing from the start, how will our minds ever expand? I don't believe they will. We need to be exposed to the views and opinions of other people in order for us to understand better what we learn, because these different views allow us to question, and the more we question, the more answers we get, and the more answers we get, the greater our knowledge builds. If we were to sit and listen to opinions we already had on a certain topic, we would never question why we believed what we believe.

One problem that many people today face is the lack of tolerance. In international education, many nations, with many cultures and ideas, are brought together in one environment...

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...n's house for dinner. If I had not learned that kissing on the cheek was natural in Italian custom as a greeting, I would have punched my friend for laying his lips on my girlfriend. The point is that we never know when some custom or culture will help us out.

Being educated in an international environment certainly sets the building blocks for the future of students. Through tolerance and understanding, we are better equipped to face the world and what it has to offer. From an international education, so many tools are developed; we just need to be able to know how to use those tools to benefit our lives.

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