Summary of the Lecture “Multiculturalism” Generally speaking, foreigners who are especially from ethically and racially homogeneous countries or whose culture is reinforced by state institutions, might react skeptically to the United States that has diverse race and ethnicity. In various cultures in the U.S, there is a culture that has strong influence to the other cultures. It is difficult for foreigners to understand American culture not only because they are used to their cultures. There are three theories that American culture has been perceived by foreigners. They are the monoculturalist view, the multiculturalist view, and the pluralistic view. In the monoculturalist view theory, American culture is described by melting pot that means the way the different groups of immigrants came together in the U.S. A main idea of this theory is that a combination of different cultures have mixed together and recognized as one group. However, many people today do not agree this theory because of discrimination and segregation of certain culture groups in the past and also now such as African, Asian, and Native American, and Chinese, Irish, Italian, and Jewish that are the most recent immigrants. Therefore, the U.S. does not assimilate new cultures easily. The multiculturalist view theory focuses on various subcultures in the U.S. In this theory, American culture is described as the patchwork quilt. This means that the multiculturalists see the United States as a mosaic of separate and autonomous subcultures. They have never have been mixed. However, opponents disagree with this theory because this theory ignores the mixing of cultures that has been common in the U.S. such as intermarriage and adoption. Therefore, many people do not agree this theory. The last theory, the pluralistic theory, is a combination of the first two theories. In this theory, individuals have