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Multicultural Competency Paper

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The question is, how can teachers promote multicultural competency in this multicultural society? Students need help to develop, multicultural competencies and multiple perspectives. Multicultural literature bridges the racial and class-based isolation that prevents the sharing of diverse experiences across racial, ethnic, class and cultural lines, (Hughes_hassell, S. 2013). The paradigms of race have been conflated with notions of ethnicity, class, and nation, because theories of race-of its meaning, its transformations, in the significance of racial events-have never been a top priority in social science, (Ladson-Billings, G.; Tate, W. F. 1995).

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