Civilization & Its Discontent
...ver Gary Kamiya questions P.C.’s acceptance if it promotes such a lack of understanding. Multiculturalism is an understanding and involvement of other ethnic cultures other than your own. So what happens, within America’s universities, is that people feel that they need to do and say whatever it takes in order to make others feel comfortable simply because they don’t understand various backgrounds of other cultures. In a subtle manner, Kamiya poses the question of who’s more academically challenged, those who don’t know about other cultures (and guess about them) or those who speak freely because of their broad understanding of many different cultures (and may offend others)? This train of thought begins at home in not understanding your own culture because its impossible to be able to gain deep understanding of a number of other cultures and have little to no understanding of your own background. Misunderstanding and a lack of multiculturalism is not what America’s education is found upon. Not only is political correctness within universities spread across ethnic boundaries but also across moral boundaries as well. In defining political correctness, Gary Kamiya also emphasizes his strong disagreement with its existence by identifying key arenas that it lives in, external to the university. Political correctness, of course, lives in government and politics, the family home, and most of all, one’s immediate peer group. People who practice political correctness feel that others are the one’s who need to learn more about other people when truly they are the ones who need to know more and take res...