Multicultural Fieldtrip

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Multicultural Fieldtrip

In the city of Columbia, South Carolina there is limited multicultural centers that are available to the public. Therefore, in the place of multicultural centers Columbia and surrounding cities have annual festivals in which many visitors and tourists from other cities and states visit to join the festivities. Columbia promotes the Greek Festival annually, North Myrtle Beach has the Irish Italian Festival, Charleston sponsors the Maritime Heritage Festival, Greenville’s Edisto Indian Cultural Festival and Spartanburg has their annual International Festival to name a few. The multicultural festival in which this essay will expound on is Spartanburg’s International Annual Festival with artifacts and an analysis of cultures.

Spartanburg is a very historic city that lies approximately ninety miles northwest of Columbia in South Carolina. This small town was built in the late seventeen hundred’s which formed its name from the Spartan Regiment of South Carolina militia from the American Revolution War (Lewis, 2007). Although this small town, Spartan gradually expanded into what is now a fairly large diverse city, in which various cultures has began a connection to build the city is currently named Spartanburg. In Spartanburg there are people of over seventy countries that reside in this city and over one hundred international businesses that make Spartanburg their home (City of Spartanburg, 2011). These numbers represents the multicultural diversity that Spartanburg has in a twenty square mile radius, which led the city representatives to propose a diverse festival.

The festival was well thought with the initiative to introduce such cultures that reside in the city of Spartanburg. The festival objectives...

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