Response to Embracing a Multicultural Rhetoric

By embracing a multicultural rhetoric in the universities we embrace the changes that hare happening more rapidly than we ever fathomed. Our schools are no longer populated by monolingual students with knowledge specific to our culture. Our city, in fact our country has taken to heart “give me your tired, poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” found at the base of the Statue of Liberty therefore as educators the author believes we should embrace these changes in our classrooms to make students feel more inclusive, instead of excluded. When we do, we may just open ourselves up to ideas and rhetoric that may have been unfamiliar to us. Whereas public education are concerned with test performances, universities should consider ways in which “students can make connections between home and academy…(as) their experience at the university will be enriched” (26). Thankfully we’re not teaching for any purpose that will deem whether our institution will be said to fail after not meeting a certain set criteria. Therefore when we engage others, without regard to their history, we negate their experience as one that doesn’t matter mainly because they are in America now.