Sabtu, 01 Desember 2012

(Code 2) TASK

1. Through the development of American history, some concepts have dominated the American people's view. how many concepts are they mention ?

There are some aspects that dominated american people's view:

  • Religion
  • Economy
  • Social
  • Culture
  • Politic


2. What do you know about pluralistic society ?


Pluralistic society
This is any society in which citizens can legally and publicly hold multiple competing ethical views and are allowed to choose for themselves what ethical beliefs if any they wish to hold. It is often mistaken for a society which tolerates different ethical beliefs or groups of people and holds that all are equal, which is correctly identified as moral relativism, a logically invalid position held by mush of the world today.

Pluralistic Society is a society comprised of people from numerous different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Although some integration and acculturation is only natural, a pluralistic society is one that acknowledges and allows for the cultural diversity of its citizens.
                       
Most Americans today accept it as an axiomatic truth that we live in a free society.  I often wonder, however, how many of us realize that a free society is by definition a pluralistic society.  A pluralistic society is one in which there are many different centers of authority, influence, and opinion, competing with one another, arguing with one another, trying by various means to expand their spheres of influence, and producing a great variety, richness, and animation.  In such a society there is no single voice, government, cultural, ethical, religious, or social.  There are many voices, each speaking from its point of view and striving to maintain itself in the general competition for belief and support.  In direct contrast stands the monistic ideal of society, experienced by many millions of persons in other lands, which does have only one voice, and which works by many means toward effecting a unanimity of opinion, belief, and sentiment on all the issues of this life.  That system bears the name totalitarian, and it is by now an obvious fact that these two are engaged in a gigantic rivalry to capture the imagination of the world.
Examples: 
1. The Amish in Pennsylvania - who travel by horse and buggy, use no electricity, and run their own schools, banks, and stores.
2. Native Americans who have their own government, religion, businesses, schools, and communities. Each individual Native American tribe is divided up into separate sub-cultures enriched with their own collective histories and traditions, language, social customs, and family of origins.

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